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title: "1 Childhood Like Quotes By Gabriela Mistral"
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> [I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriela-mistral/i-have-all-that-i-lost-and-i-go-carrying-my-childhood-like-a-favorite/)

[Gabriela Mistral](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriela-mistral/)

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## More by Gabriela Mistral

> [Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriela-mistral/love-that-stammers-that-stutters-is-apt-to-be-the-love-that-loves-best/)

[Gabriela Mistral](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriela-mistral/)

> [Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriela-mistral/now-i-am-nothing-but-a-veil-all-my-body-is-a-veil-beneath-which-a/)

[Gabriela Mistral](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriela-mistral/)

> [What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriela-mistral/what-the-soul-is-to-the-body-so-is-the-artist-to-his-people/)

[Gabriela Mistral](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriela-mistral/)

> [All night I have suffered; all night my flesh has trembled to bring forth its gift. The sweat of death is on my forehead;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriela-mistral/all-night-i-have-suffered-all-night-my-flesh-has-trembled-to-bring/)

[Gabriela Mistral](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriela-mistral/)

> [You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriela-mistral/you-shall-create-beauty-not-to-excite-the-senses-but-to-give/)

[Gabriela Mistral](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriela-mistral/)

> [The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriela-mistral/the-poet-is-an-untier-of-knots-and-love-without-words-is-a-knot-and/)

[Gabriela Mistral](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriela-mistral/)

> [I have a faithful joy and a joy that is lost. One is like a rose, the other, a thorn. The one that was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriela-mistral/i-have-a-faithful-joy-and-a-joy-that-is-lost-one-is-like-a-rose-the/)

[Gabriela Mistral](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriela-mistral/)

> [In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriela-mistral/in-the-secret-of-night-my-prayer-climbs-like-the-liana-my-prayer-is/)

[Gabriela Mistral](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriela-mistral/)

> [At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriela-mistral/at-this-moment-by-an-undeserved-stroke-of-fortune-i-am-the-direct/)

[Gabriela Mistral](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriela-mistral/)

> [Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriela-mistral/love-beauty-it-is-the-shadow-of-god-on-the-universe/)

[Gabriela Mistral](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriela-mistral/)

> [Now my belly is as noble as my heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriela-mistral/now-my-belly-is-as-noble-as-my-heart/)

[Gabriela Mistral](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriela-mistral/)

> [Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriela-mistral/let-the-earth-look-at-me-and-bless-me-for-now-i-am-fecund-and-sacred/)

[Gabriela Mistral](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriela-mistral/)

> [Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriela-mistral/many-things-we-need-can-wait-the-child-cannot-now-is-the-time-his/)

[Gabriela Mistral](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriela-mistral/)

> [I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriela-mistral/i-have-all-that-i-lost-and-i-go-carrying-my-childhood-like-a-favorite/)

[Gabriela Mistral](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriela-mistral/)

> [For me, religiosity is ... the constant remembrance of the presence of the soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriela-mistral/for-me-religiosity-is-the-constant-remembrance-of-the-presence-of-the/)

[Gabriela Mistral](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriela-mistral/)

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