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Gabriela Mistral has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Now my belly is as noble as my heart.
• I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat.…
• What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people,
• Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and…
• I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.
• I have a faithful joy and a joy that is lost. One is like a rose, the other, a thorn. The one…
• The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.
• In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I…
• Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.
• You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.
• A crippled child Said, "How shall I dance?" Let your heart dance We said. Then the invalid said: "How shall I sing?"…
• Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.

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