"The poet is an untier of knots, and……" — Gabriela Mistral
"The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns."
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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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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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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
— Francis Bacon
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The devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger…
— Martin Luther
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When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world…
— Bill McKibben
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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
— Michel de Montaigne
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A few times in my life I've had moments of clarity where the silence drowns out the noise and I…
— Tom Ford
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God pisses down the back of your neck every day but only drowns you once.
— Stephen King
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I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross…
— Boris Pasternak
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Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.
— Frederick Tennyson
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The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely…
— Paul Tournier
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Love is the sea where intellect drowns.
— Rumi
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