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.
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… - Gabriela Mistral
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…
- Gabriela Mistral
I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long time I’ve been the ser… - Gabriela Mistral
I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long time I’ve been the ser…
The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns. - Gabriela Mistral
The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.
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 … - Gabriela Mistral
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 …
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 … - Gabriela Mistral
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 …
Now my belly is as noble as my heart. - Gabriela Mistral
Now my belly is as noble as my heart.
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
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.
I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand. - Gabriela Mistral
I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.
Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world. - Gabriela Mistral
Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.
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