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Top 20 Gabriela Mistral Quotes (2025 Update)

Gabriela Mistral Quote: “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.”

1. “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

Gabriela Mistral Quote: “You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.”

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

— Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral Quote: “Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.”

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

— Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral Quote: “Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.”

4. “Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.”

— Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral Quote: “Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe.”

5. “Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe.”

— Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral Quote: “The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.”

6. “The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.”

— Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

— Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral Quote: “I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.”

8. “I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.”

— Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral Quote: “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!”

9. “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

Gabriela Mistral Quote: “Now my belly is as noble as my heart.”

10. “Now my belly is as noble as my heart.”

— Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral Quote: “There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.”

11. “There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.”

— Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral Quote: “Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.”

12. “Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.”

— Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral Quote: “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.”

13. “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

Gabriela Mistral Quote: “Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.”

14. “Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.”

— Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral Quote: “The night itself is riddled with her, wide with her, and alive with her.”

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

— Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

— Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral Quote: “Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.”

17. “Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.”

— Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral Quote: “My grief and my smile begin in your face, my son.”

18. “My grief and my smile begin in your face, my son.”

— Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral Quote: “I could have not returned, and I’ve returned.”

19. “I could have not returned, and I’ve returned.”

— Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral Quote: “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.”

20. “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

Gabriela Mistral Quote: “Now what mattered to me no longer matters.”

21. “Now what mattered to me no longer matters.”

— Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral Quote: “And she grasps it because it’s her fate.”

22. “And she grasps it because it’s her fate.”

— Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral Quote: “No happiness or pain, no more forgetting.”

23. “No happiness or pain, no more forgetting.”

— Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral Quote: “You saw her a hundred times, but not once did you look at her.”

24. “You saw her a hundred times, but not once did you look at her.”

— Gabriela Mistral

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