Gabriela Mistral Quotes

I am Cassandra - she who, without asking,
understood it all and still came to her fate,
I, Cassandra, full of visions,
who sees her own death without turning away,
and hears in the night the day that follows. ~ Gabriela Mistral

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 life! ~ Gabriela Mistral

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

Now what mattered to me no longer matters. ~ Gabriela Mistral

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. ~ Gabriela Mistral

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. ~ Gabriela Mistral

Some kisses pronounced themselvesthe judgment of conviction love,Some kisses are given with an eyeSome kisses are given with the memory.There are silent kisses, kisses noblesThere enigmatic kisses, sincereSome kisses are given only soulsThere forbidden kisses, true.Some kisses calcined and hurt,Some kisses captivate sensesThere mysterious kisses that have leftthousand wandering and lost dreams.There problematic kisses enclosinga key that no one has decipheredSome kisses engender tragedyfew have defoliated roses brooch.There perfumed kisses, warm kissesthrobbing in intimate longings,Some kisses on the lips leave tracesas a field of sun between two ice.Some kisses seem liliesby sublime, naive and pure,There treacherous and cowardly kisses,There cursed and perjured kisses.Judas kisses Jesus and leaves printin the face of God, felony,while Magdalena with kissesfortifies pious agony.From then kisses throbslove, betrayal and pain,in human weddings they seemthe breeze playing with flowers.There are kisses that produce ravingsloving hot and mad passion,you know them well are my kissesinvented by me, for your mouth.Flame kisses printed on trailThey take the grooves of a forbidden love,kisses storm, wild kissesour lips only been tested.Do you remember the first ...? Indefinable;Your face covered with blushes luridand in the throes of terrible emotion,Your eyes were filled with tears.Do you remember that one evening in excess crazyI saw you jealous imagining grievances,He flunked you in ~ Gabriela Mistral

Like cider and aged wine I was desired,
desired like the sheer blue cascade
that dazzles the eyes of the thirsty. ~ Gabriela Mistral

Now my belly is as noble as my heart. ~ Gabriela Mistral

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

What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people, ~ Gabriela Mistral

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. ~ Gabriela Mistral

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

For me, religiosity is ... the constant remembrance of the presence of the soul. ~ Gabriela Mistral

Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe ~ Gabriela Mistral

My grief and my smile begin in your face, my son. ~ Gabriela Mistral

Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps. ~ 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 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. ~ Gabriela Mistral

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

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

She talks with an accent of savage seas. Her breathing is the breath of the wilderness, she has loved with a passion that makes her blanch, which she never mentions and which would be like the map of another star if she told us. ~ Gabriela Mistral

Everyone left and we have remained
on a path that goes on without us. ~ Gabriela Mistral

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

do not expect high CTRs on Facebook. Unlike Google, where the average CTR is 1%, on Facebook you can expect CTRs of 0.1%, as on Facebook ads are displayed and not searched for. ~ Gabriela Taylor

It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard. ~ Gabriela Sabatini

Sometimes life brings you the most unexpected experiences, where you learn more than you ever wanted to. ~ Emily Gabriela Vira

Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that. ~ Gabriela Sabatini

Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life. ~ Gabriela Sabatini

I travel a lot to promote the perfumes and to do the commercials. ~ Gabriela Sabatini

Trust is so valuable. It's sometimes hard to gain, but so easy to lose. One must always be careful about trusting another, but there are times where people are too careful or too afraid & forget how to open up to those who won't do any harm. Choose wisely who you trust, but don't worry too much. Disappointment occurs, but life goes on ~ Emily Gabriela Vira

In a threesome, there are always two exhibitionists and a voyeur. ~ Gabriela Wiener

I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing. ~ Gabriela Sabatini

I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away. ~ Gabriela Sabatini

For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make. ~ Gabriela Sabatini

Life is like a book. It is your decision to narrate it or to live it ~ Gabriela Rodriguez

Moving to another city is to change the accent of your affections. ~ Gabriela Wiener

Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral. ~ Walker Percy

Give me a few bits of wool to stick on the car, a good gust of mistral wind, and I could come up with a better aerodynamic package on the bridge at Avigon ~ Jean Alesi

I loved to play, I was competitive, I wanted to win, that was all I knew. In the first few years tennis is a game. Later, it becomes a job, ~ Gabriela Sabatini

When the Good Lord begins to doubt the world, he remembers that he created Provence. ~ Frederic Mistral

The key to happiness is loving yourself. For years I have struggled to reach this point and even now at the age of 20 I will be honest in saying I am not 100% there yet. However, I will say I am much closer to that 100 than I was 5 years ago. ~ Gabriela M. Sanchez

The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing. ~ Gabriela Sabatini

There were so much affairs of me created by the media ... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star. ~ Gabriela Sabatini

The mother was convinced that the purchase of this piece of furniture would facilitate the bond she so hungered for with Gabriela, although she hated the unnerving history associated with the paravent. But, she thought, what could it possibly do to a child? ~ Laura Gentile

It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement. ~ Gabriela Sabatini

Not everyone will accept you, not everyone will listen to what you have to say & not everyone will care. Does that really matter? I think not. Others may have any opinion whatsoever, but that should not influence who you are or who you want to be. ~ Emily Gabriela Vira

Scars are proof you have lived life. ~ Doris Gabriela Decker

An egg white omelet with vegetables is one of my favorite breakfasts. ~ Gabriela Isler

What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people. ~ Gabriela Sabatini

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. ~ Gabriela Popa

Perfect harmony of body and mind are my key to personal balance and happiness. ~ Gabriela Sabatini

I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket. ~ Gabriela Sabatini

I have an office in Argentina, I go there every day, so I work. ~ Gabriela Sabatini

She could taste her children on her tongue, the colors they wore. Jacqueline was yellow. Gunnar was blue. Gabriela had always been red. All their weight. Their history inside of her. And she remembered her mother's synesthesia and was startled as guilt crept up her throat. ~ Laura Gentile

The best Chateauneuf-du-Papes are among the most natural expressions of grapes, place and vintage. Chateauneuf-du-Pape vineyards are farmed organically or biodynamically, and the region's abundant sunshine and frequent wind (called 'le mistral') practically preclude the need for treating the fields with herbicides or pesticides. ~ Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Mistral. Take the wheel for a while. I'll go down to the galley ~ Daniel Silva

I want not, that everybody hears about. Then I can't longer be myself. ~ Gabriela Sabatini