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

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


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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.



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



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Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe



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

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



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



What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people.

What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people.



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

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



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

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



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

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



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





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This page presents the quote "Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.". Author of this quote is Gabriela Mistral. This quote is about body, children, pregnancy, sleep,.