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Gabrielle Mistral
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“He kissed me and now I am somebody else.”
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“ My grief and my smile begin in your face, my son.”
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“Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe.”
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“Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.”
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“All night I have suffered; all night my flesh has trembled to bring forth its gift. The sweat of death is on my forehead; but it is not death, it is life!”
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“The crimson rose / plucked yesterday, / the fire and cinnamon / of the carnation, // the bread I baked / with anise seed and honey, / and the goldfish / flaming in its bowl. // All these are yours, baby born of woman, / if you'll only go to sleep.”
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“I have a true happiness / and a happiness betrayed, / the one like a rose, / the other like a thorn.”
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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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“Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.”
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“I love the things I never had / along with those I have no more.”
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“Because of the sleeping child I carry, / my step has become reserved, / and religious is all my heart / since I carry the mystery.”
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“For me, religiosity is ... the constant remembrance of the presence of the soul.”
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“[The poet is] an undoer of knots, and love without words is a knot that strangles.”
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“Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.”
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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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“Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.”
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“Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are being formed; his blood is being made; his mind is being developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow. His name is today.”
Gabrielle Mistral, Chilean poet, mystic, Nobel Prize winner
(1889 - 1957)
Real name: Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga.