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“Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe”
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Gabriela Mistral
#Inspirational Quotes
#Beauty Quotes
#Shadow Quotes
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“You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.”
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Gabriela Mistral
Source : Gabriela Mistral, Doris Dana (1971). “Selected poems of Gabriela Mistral”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
#Giving Quotes
#Soul Quotes
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“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.”
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Gabriela Mistral
#Education Quotes
#Children Quotes
#Parenting Quotes
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“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.”
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Gabriela Mistral
#Children Quotes
#Heart Quotes
#Blue Quotes
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“Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.”
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Gabriela Mistral
Source : Gabriela Mistral, Doris Dana (1971). “Selected poems of Gabriela Mistral”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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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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Gabriela Mistral
Source : Gabriela Mistral, Doris Dana (1971). “Selected poems of Gabriela Mistral”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
#Soul Quotes
#World Quotes
#Speech Quotes
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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.”
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Gabriela Mistral
#Song Quotes
#Block Quotes
#Spring Quotes
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“Now my belly is as noble as my heart.”
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Gabriela Mistral
Source : Roger Martin du Gard, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Gabriela Mistral (1971). “Roger Martin du Gard: Gabriela Mistral ; Boris Pasternak”
#Pregnancy Quotes
#Heart Quotes
#Noble Quotes
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“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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Gabriela Mistral
Source : Gabriela Mistral, Doris Dana (1971). “Selected poems of Gabriela Mistral”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
#Education Quotes
#Learning Quotes
#Heart Quotes
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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 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 ‘Tomorrow,’ his name is today.”
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Gabriela Mistral
Source : "His Name is Today". Poem by Gabriela Mistral, mid 1900s.
#Children Quotes
#Errors Quotes
#Blood Quotes
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“What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people,”
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Gabriela Mistral
#Artist Quotes
#People Quotes
#Soul Quotes
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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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Gabriela Mistral
#Flower Quotes
#Hands Quotes
#Childhood Quotes
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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.”
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Gabriela Mistral
Source : Gabriela Mistral, Doris Dana (1971). “Selected poems of Gabriela Mistral”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
#Rose Quotes
#Joy Quotes
#Faithful Quotes
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“The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.”
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Gabriela Mistral
#And Love Quotes
#Poet Quotes
#Knots Quotes
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“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.”
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Gabriela Mistral
Source : Gabriela Mistral, Doris Dana (1971). “Selected poems of Gabriela Mistral”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
#Prayer Quotes
#Night Quotes
#Roots Quotes
