"Don Quijote" I mellomtiden red han så langsomt, og solen skinte så sterkt og så hett at det ville ha vært tilstrekkelig til å gjøre hjernemassen fly… - Miguel de Cervantes

y así, vienen a volverse en humo mis esperanzas.

On the one hand they regarded him as a man of wit and sense, and on the other he seemed to them a maundering blockhead, and they could not make up their minds whereabouts between wisdom and folly they ought to place him.

He robbed him of a great deal of his natural force, and so do all those who try to turn books written in verse into another language, for, with all the pains they take and all the cleverness they show, they never can reach the level of the originals as they were first produced.