The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes…

“Translation is the other side of a tapestry.”

— Leonardo Sciascia

“So...what are you working on now?" “Right now, an essay about Don Quixote.” “One of my favorite books.” “Mine too.” “What’s the gist?” “It…

— David Mazzucchelli

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

— John Millington Synge

“Translation,” I said. “We got around her fair and square. She won’t like it, but she’ll accept it.” “Oh yeah,” Thomas muttered under his…

— Jim Butcher

“Daemon spoke in his language. The lyrical quality of his words made no sense to me. “What did you say?” I asked. “There’s really…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.

— Lord Byron

“No hay memoria a quien el tiempo no acabe, ni dolor que muerte no le consuma.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Faint heart never won fair maiden”

— Cervantes

“Marcela: Hízome el cielo, según vosotros decís, hermosa, y de tal manera, que, sin ser poderosos a otra cosa, a que me améis os…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

— Lord Byron

“[He] looked exactly like Michael's idea of Don Quixote, 'the luminary and mirror of all knight-errantry', and for that gentle and melancholy knight Michael…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“It’s madness to see life as it is and not how it should be.”

— Knight of the woeful countenance

“the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.”

— Aubrey F.G. Bell

Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor -…

— Antonio Munoz Molina

Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism."…

— Stephen Leacock