"I write poetry because I can’t disobey the……" — Gabriela Mistral
"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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Gabriela Mistral
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17 Quotes by Gabriela Mistral
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Now my belly is as noble as my heart.
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What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people,
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Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger…
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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.…
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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,…
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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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You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.
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A crippled child Said, "How shall I dance?" Let your heart dance We said. Then the invalid said: "How shall…
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Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.
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Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe
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