The word noise appears very early in Don Quixote de la Mancha. Cervantes was one of those people of disposition.
calm that was almost always harassed by the sad noises of the world. He celebrates silence so many times in his literature, and repeatedly describes it as wonderful, a refuge and an antidote against the stridency and cacophonies of an inhospitable reality. “I don't see with noise,” says Juan Ramón Jiménez, another fugitive from the world in search of silence.