Cyrano de Bergerac Quotes on Literature
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Our host received a piece of paper from my familiar spirit. I asked if he were giving him a check or note to pay the bill. He answered no, that he had settled the account with a poem. 'What? A poem?' I asked. 'Are innkeepers curious about rhymes?' 'It's the local currency,' he answered. 'The sextain I've just given him will cover our expenses. I wasn't afraid of coming up short. Even if we'd spent a week in luxury, it wouldn't have cost a sonnet, and I have four on me. Along with two epigrams, two odes and an eclogue.'
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Cyrano distills the most radical ideas of his time into a potent literary liqueur.
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Voltaire's philosophical tale 'Micromegas' is also considered a 'classic of early science fiction.' It's very well known and easily accessible, and it's easy to read in the original. But in comparison to Cyrano's novel, it is tame.