Gabriela Mistral Quotes

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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

Grant that I may be successful in molding one of my pupil's into a perfect poem, and let me leave within her deepest-felt melody that she may sing for you when my lips shall sing no more.

Gabriela Mistral

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

Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral

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Born: April 7, 1889

Died: January 10, 1957 (aged 67)

Bio: Gabriela Mistral was the pseudonym of Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga, a Chilean poet-diplomat, educator and humanist.

Known for:

Selected prose and prose-poems
Lecturas para mujeres (1923)
Invitación a Gabriela Mistral
This America of ours
Motivos: The Life of St. Francis

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