"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."

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Source : Gabriela Mistral, Doris Dana (1971). “Selected poems of Gabriela Mistral”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Gabriela Mistral

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“I have come to the conclusion that it is better to be silent than to speak.”
“Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.”
“There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every colour holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels me, and which acts as a stimulus. To a person who has no art in him, colours are colours, tones tones...and that is all. All their consequences for the human spirit, which range between heaven to hell, just go unnoticed.”
“On 'Morning Joe' I can say what I think, be my sometimes unorthodox self, have fun, yet be serious as well.”
“Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?”
“Let anyone who has zeal for God come with me! Let us fight for our brothers! Let Heaven's will be done!”
“Flaubert's famous sentence, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi" ("Madame Bovary, she is me"), in reality means, " Madame Bovary, c'est nous" ("Madame Bovary, she is us"), in our modern incapacity to live a "good-enough" life.”

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