"You shall create beauty not to excite the……" — Gabriela Mistral

You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give… - Gabriela Mistral

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

— Gabriela Mistral

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17 Quotes by Gabriela Mistral

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…
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…
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 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,…
Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.
A crippled child Said, "How shall I dance?" Let your heart dance We said. Then the invalid said: "How shall…
Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.
Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe

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More Beauty Quotes

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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