65 Quotes by Gabriela Mistral

I stir the grasses where quail nestle, tenderly afraid.And through the countryside I go quietly, cautiously:I believe that trees and things have sleeping childrenover whom they hover watching.

Recordar un buen momento es sentirse feliz de nuevo.

I don't want to know, but I would liketo know it all from your own mouth,how she fell, what she said when she screamedand whether she cursed or blessed you.

And he keeps listening to seas that love nothing but themselves.But maybe now he listens to nothing,stalled in forgetfulness and salt.

If ever we two had a soul, let our soul—keep on walking and leave us behind.

The night itself is riddled with her, wide with her, and alive with her.

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.

And she grasps it because it's her fate.

The bronze of the door is worthless, alas,to keep me from seeing her who comesby the walks of myrtles to search me outdrunk with hatred and crazed by fate.