Love Quotes by Gabriela Mistral

Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.

— Gabriela Mistral

Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.

— Gabriela Mistral

What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people,

— 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;…

— Gabriela Mistral

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

— Gabriela Mistral

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Gabriela Mistral

Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe

— Gabriela Mistral

Now my belly is as noble as my heart.

— Gabriela Mistral

Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.

— Gabriela Mistral