65 Quotes by Gabriela Mistral

If it's all been dream and deliriummay death ripen me in my dream.

The gods give, like twin flowers, power and ruin, memory and oblivion.

I could have not returned, and I've returned.

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

She loved only her lover and Iphigeniain the narrowness of her cold breast.

Mi grito vivo no se le relaja;ciego y exacto lo alcanza en los riscos.Avanza abriendo el matorral espesoy al acercarse ya suelta su espalda,libre lo deja y se apaga en mi puerta.Y ya no hay voz cuando cae a mis brazosporque toda ella quedó consumida,y este silencio es más fuerte que el gritosi así nos deja con los rostros blancos.

The past is falling to pieceslike the beggar with his clown-clothes . . .

Now what mattered to me no longer matters.

The night itself is riddled with her, wide with her, and alive with her.It seems that it has no wordor other traveler, no other secret sign.