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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 servant of the song that comes, that appears and can’t be buried away. How to seal myself up now?…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's Popular Quotes

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

The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

- 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…

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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 …

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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 …

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Now my belly is as noble as my heart.

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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 all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.

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Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

- Gabriela Mistral