Miguel de Cervantes Quote

It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.


The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha (ed. 1898)


It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should...

It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should...

It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should...

It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should...