Cervantes Prize Recipient

Famous quotes containing the words cervantes, prize and/or recipient:

“If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)

“The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)