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Gabriela Mistral

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Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.


— Gabriela Mistral


#love

You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.


— Gabriela Mistral


#poetry #beauty

Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe


— Gabriela Mistral


#beauty

Donde haya un árbol que plantar, plántalo tú. Donde haya un error que enmendar, enmiéndalo tú. Donde haya un esfuerzo que todos esquivan, hazlo tú. Sé tú el que aparta la piedra del camino.


— Gabriela Mistral


#inspirational

At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.


— Gabriela Mistral


#direct #fortune #i #i am #indirect

Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.


— Gabriela Mistral


#cannot #child #developed #formed #him






About Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral Quotes




Did you know about Gabriela Mistral?

She received the award in person from King Gustav of Sweden on December 10 1945. A final volume of poetry Poema de Chile was edited posthumously by her friend Doris Dana and publiGabriela Mistrald in 1967. That year Gabriela Mistral publiGabriela Mistrald Desolación in New York which further promoted the international acclaim Gabriela Mistral had already been receiving thanks to her journalism and public speaking.

Gabriela Mistral (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡaˈβɾjelamisˈt̪ɾal]; 1889–1957) was the pseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga a Chilean poet educator diplomat and feminist who was the first Latin American (and so far the only Latin American woman) to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945. Her portrait also appears on the 5000 Chilean peso bank note.

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