"Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their……" — Gabriela Mistral
"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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Gabriela Mistral
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17 Quotes by Gabriela Mistral
Gabriela Mistral has 17 quotes on this site.
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Now my belly is as noble as my heart.
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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…
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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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