Quote of the day
But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.
Gabriela Mistral
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