Gabriela Mistral famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe
-- Gabriela Mistral

#Inspirational #Beauty #Shadow
You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.
-- Gabriela Mistral

#Giving #Soul
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.
-- Gabriela Mistral

#Education #Children #Parenting
A crippled child Said, "How shall I dance?" Let your heart dance We said. Then the invalid said: "How shall I sing?" Let your heart sing We said Then spoke the poor dead thistle, "But I, how shall I dance?" Let your heart fly to the wind We said. Then God spoke from above "How shall I descend from the blue?" Come dance for us here in the light We said. All the valley is dancing Together under the sun, And the heart of him who joins us not Is turned to dust, to dust.
-- Gabriela Mistral

#Children #Heart #Blue
Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.
-- Gabriela Mistral
Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.
-- Gabriela Mistral

#Soul #World #Speech
I write poetry because I canâ€™t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long time Iâ€™ve been the servant of the song that comes, that appears and canâ€™t be buried away. How to seal myself up now?â€¦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.
-- Gabriela Mistral

#Song #Block #Spring
Now my belly is as noble as my heart.
-- Gabriela Mistral

#Pregnancy #Heart #Noble
Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer gold than the columns and gold of rich schools.
-- Gabriela Mistral

#Education #Learning #Heart
We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer â€˜Tomorrow,â€™ his name is today.
-- Gabriela Mistral

#Children #Errors #Blood
What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people,
-- Gabriela Mistral

#Artist #People #Soul
I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.
-- Gabriela Mistral

#Flower #Hands #Childhood
I have a faithful joy and a joy that is lost. One is like a rose, the other, a thorn. The one that was stolen I have not lost.
-- Gabriela Mistral

#Rose #Joy #Faithful
The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.
-- Gabriela Mistral

#And Love #Poet #Knots
In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have only my hard breath, my reason and my madness. I cling to the vine of my prayer. I tend it at the root of the stalk of night.
-- Gabriela Mistral

#Prayer #Night #Roots

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