Gabriela Mistral quotes

Gabriela Mistral was a Chilean poet, educator, and diplomat, recognized as one of Latin America's greatest literary figures. Her deeply emotional poetry focused on themes of love, motherhood, and social justice, earning her the Nobel Prize in Literature. She became the first Latin American author to receive this prestigious honor. Here are 7 of her quotes:

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

Gabriela Mistral

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

Gabriela Mistral

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

Gabriela Mistral

Now my belly is as noble as my heart.

Gabriela Mistral

Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.

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