Kierkegaard: The Don Quixote of religion.

famous aphorism by Lucian Blaga, translated by Dan Costinaş
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There is something of Don Quixote in Don Juan; and vice versa.

aphorism by Alfred Corn
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While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.

quote by Mason Cooley
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Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

quote by Franz Kafka
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Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.

quote by Thomas Sydenham
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

quote by George Bernard Shaw
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The Last Picasso

Words and music by neil diamond
The last picasso, the last picasso was just acquired by some old museum, and don quixote, well don quixote the old mans rhyme has lost its reason; which only reminds me have I remembered to say that without you this life of plenty, would seem so empty, the last picasso. oh me and you--me oh me oh me oh me and you-- we, we can sigh--me oh me oh me oh me oh we can sigh. the last picasso, the last picasso may gather dust amid the ruins, and don quixote, well don quixote may no longer make his wishful tunes; but I still have you and I will have you when evrything else is gone and done with. well be like one with the last picasso. oh me and you--me oh me oh me oh me oh me and you-- we, we can sigh--me oh me oh me oh me oh we can sigh. oh, me and you--me oh me oh me oh me oh me and you-- we, we can sigh--me oh me oh me oh me oh we can sigh. oh, me and you--we we can sigh me oh me oh me oh we can sign. oh, me and you.

song performed by Neil Diamond
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

quote by W.H. Auden
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Limerick

„God does not play dice” –
I do not take God’s ways in vain,
I only dream with an inert body-infinite
in the gardens
of the sleep(...),
And the waves of my verse
don quixote-like – charismatic
Are ▫ in an absurd way : ghostly
field lines,
curves or chords of segments,
knot-chain loops
or dogmatic
equations –
Holographic
eviscerations,
written in a
lattice-matrix.

poem by Dumitru Găleșanu from Addéndum, inspired by Albert Einstein (April 2014), translated by Muguraș Maria Petrescu
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Picture Poem #85 (From, This Is My Wasteland)

Dark October
with soft brown groves

purple blossoms
sunrise
and drifting weeks
in saffron

quixote lush
in the sunset

poem by Peter S. Quinn
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I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

quote by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Weeping

Weeping,
I go down the street
Grotesque, without solution
With the sadness of Cyrano
And Quixote.

Redeeming
Infinite impossiblities
With the rhythm of the clock.

poem by Federico García Lorca
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I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something.

quote by Dominic Chianese
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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

quote by Lord Byron
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The Lady of Oriana To Dulcinea del Toboso

Oh, fairest Dulcinea, could it be!
It were a pleasant fancy to suppose so—
Could Miraflores change to El Toboso,
And London's town to that which shelters thee!

Oh, could mine but acquire that livery
Of countless charms thy mind and body show so!
Or him, now famous grown—thou mad'st him grow so—
Thy knight, in some dread combat could I see!

Oh, could I be released from Amadis
By exercise of such coy chastity
As led thee gentle Quixote to dismiss!

Then would my heavy sorrow turn to joy;
None would I envy, all would envy me,
And happiness be mine without alloy.

poem by Miguel de Cervantes from Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605), translated by John Ormsby
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Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young.

quote by David Guterson
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Don Quixote

the warrıor of the eternal youth
obeyed his mind throbbing in his heart
and so
one day in JULY
he went for a warfare
to acquire the claims
of the beautiful...the honest and the righteous
in front of him lay the cruel world
with her malicious and stupid giants
riding on his sad but heroine horse ROSINANTE
I know
what is to be longing deeply for this
what is to be brave with a huge unprevented pounding heart
there is no other way
we do it our way
for me and for DON QUIXOTE
than
to fight with the big giant wind-mills
it is a must for us
you are right DON QUIXOTE

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poem by Metin Sahin
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Parable

I read how Quixote in his random ride
Came to a crossing once, and lest he lose
The purity of chance, would not decide

Whither to fare, but wished his horse to choose.
For glory lay wherever turned the fable.
His head was light with pride, his horse's shoes

Were heavy, and he headed for the stable.

poem by Richard Wilbur
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I Am Your Don Quixote

I am your Don Quixote
But there is no armor for this heart
No protection from your eyes
There is no armor for this heart
Vulnerable I battle with your smile
There is no armor for this heart
From your beauty I cannot hide
There is no armor for this heart
Exposed I am tangled in only lies
There is no armor for this heart
Empty as every windmill that I find
There is no armor for this heart
I lay awake with open eyes

poem by Brian Kilpatrick
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Knight of the Mournful Countenance

I read cervantes' novel don quixote
in visitation grammar school

the good nuns knew I was not
the average neighborhood thug

so they left me to read dumas
and jack london or whomever

and to illustrate the hijinks
of eighth grade hooligans

in pencil and ink comic book style
the nuns may have guessed

my ulterior motive in ridiculing
the thugs who menaced me

every day after school
with a sound thrashing

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poem by Michael Pruchnicki
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