Quotes About Ariosto

Little did they suspect that the years would end by wearing away the disharmony. Little did they suspect that La Mancha and Montiel and the knight's frail figure would be, for the future, no less poetic than Sinbad's haunts or Ariosto's vast geographies. For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.