Quotes by Gabriela Mistral - Page 1

Now my belly is as noble as my heart.
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Heart
Noble
Pregnancy
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My grief and my smile begin in your face, my son.
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Faces
Grief
Son
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Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe
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Beauty
Inspirational
Shadow
Universe
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What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people.
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Artist
People
Soul
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Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.
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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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And Love
Knots
Poet
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Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.
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Children
Pregnancy
Sleep
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For me, religiosity is ... the constant remembrance of the presence of the soul.
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Constant
Remembrance
Soul
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You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.
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Giving
Senses
Soul
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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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Childhood
Flower
Hands
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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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Soul
Speech
World
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Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.
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Earth
Pregnancy
Sacred
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There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.
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Healthy
Immense
Joy
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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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Joy
Lost Ones
Rose
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All night I have suffered; all night my flesh has trembled to bring forth its gift. The sweat of death is on my forehead; but it is not death, it is life!
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Flesh
Night
Sweat
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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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Bones
Mind
Today
Tomorrow
Time Today Tomorrow
Things
Now
Need
Child
Name
Cannot
Developed
Many
Say
Formed
Wait
Him
His
We Cannot
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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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Direct
Fortune
Indirect
Noble
Portuguese
Race
Voice
Moment
Poets
Spanish
Stroke
Tongues
Undeserved
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Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer gold than the columns and gold of rich schools.
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Education
Learning
Heart
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Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today.
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Education
Parenting
Children
Teaching
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Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.
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Cheer
Spirit
Writing
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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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Night
Prayer
Roots
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We are guilty of many errors and many faults, But our worst crime is abandoning the children, Neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, His blood is being made, And his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer 'Tomorrow.' His name is 'Today.'
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Blood
Children
Errors
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I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long time I’ve been the servant of the song that comes, that appears and can’t be buried away. How to seal myself up now?…It no longer matters to me who receives what I submit. What I carry out is, in that respect, greater and deeper than I, I am merely the channel.
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Block
Song
Spring
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A crippled child Said, "How shall I dance?" Let your heart dance We said. Then the invalid said: "How shall I sing?" Let your heart sing We said Then spoke the poor dead thistle, "But I, how shall I dance?" Let your heart fly to the wind We said. Then God spoke from above "How shall I descend from the blue?" Come dance for us here in the light We said. All the valley is dancing Together under the sun, And the heart of him who joins us not Is turned to dust, to dust.
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Blue
Children
Heart
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