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" "In short, he became so absorbed in his books that he spent his nights from sunset to sunrise, and his days from dawn to dark, poring over them; and what with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits. His fancy grew full of what he used to read about in his books, enchantments, quarrels, battles, challenges, wounds, wooings, loves, agonies, and all sorts of impossible nonsense; and it so possessed his mind that the whole fabric of invention and fancy he read of was true, that to him no history in the world had more reality in it.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (29 September 1547 – 23 April 1616) was a Spanish novelist, poet and playwright. He is most famous for his novel Don Quixote, or Don Quijote de la Mancha, which is considered by many to be the first modern novel, one of the greatest works in Western literature, and the greatest of the Spanish language.
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Yo, que siempre trabajo y me desvelo
por parecer que tengo de poeta
la gracia que no quiso darme el cielo,
quisiera despachar a la estafeta
mi alma, o por los aires, y ponella
sobre las cumbres del nombrado Oeta,
pues, descubriendo desde allí la bella
corriente de Aganipe, en un saltico
pudiera el labio remojar en ella,
y quedar del licor süave y rico
el pancho lleno, y ser de allí adelante
poeta ilustre, o al menos magnifico.
Mas mil inconvenientes al instante
se me ofrecieron, y quedó el deseo
en cierne, desvalido e ignorante.
Porque [en] la piedra que en mis hombros veo,
que la Fortuna me cargó pesada,
mis mal logradas esperanzas leo.