Gabriela Mistral

You shall create beauty not to excite the sensesbut to give sustenance to the soul.

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You shall create beauty not to excite the sensesbut to give sustenance to the soul.

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At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.

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Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.

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I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.

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I have a faithful joy and a joy that is lost. One is like a rose, the other, a thorn. The one that was stolen I have not lost.

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The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

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In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have only my hard breath, my reason and my madness. I cling to the vine of my prayer. I tend it at the root of the stalk of night.

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Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

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Quotes by Gabriela Mistral