A Poet Reflects

May 25, 2011 with 77 notes
        tags: Don Quixote. historian. Miguel de Cervantes. poet.
“The poet may describe or sing things, not as they are, but as they ought to have been, while the historian has to write them down, not as they ought to have been, but as they were.” —Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part II, Chapter III, 1605.

“The poet may describe or sing things, not as they are, but as they ought to have been, while the historian has to write them down, not as they ought to have been, but as they were.”

—Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part II, Chapter III, 1605.

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