Gabriela Mistral

"The future is made of the same stuff as the present."

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"I am not, nor have I ever been, a believer in revolution."

"The poetry of a people comes not from the strength of their armies, but from their capacity for love."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel."

"Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."

"Maternity without women's freedom is a slavery."

"I want to be remembered as a person who wanted peace."

"The saddest sickness is to think yourself well when you are ill."

"In giving we receive, in forgetting self we find ourselves."

"Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of."

"The hands of those who help us knock gently against our hearts."

"I learned early that crying signifies that I am alive."

"Words are the legislators of mankind."

"Poetry is emotion put into measure."

"I have a vast thirst for beauty and goodness."

"The child asks and asks questions. In the end, he loses the faculty of asking."

"I believe in the passion of suffering."

"Anything that simplifies and unites is poetry."

"How to find continuity in discontinuity, the eternal in flux?"

"I love Mexico because it has suffered so much and wants so much good."

"The dead do not belong to any hour or minute, they are democratic, they belong to the centuries."

"I understood that my heart had a geography."

"To love is to choose."

"We are the music while the music lasts."

"The great acts of history are made by those who prefer truth to comfort."

"A wise woman has no wisdom; she has instead experience."

"Happiness is concealed in work."

"Every person carries within them an entire history."

"The earth does not belong to us; we belong to the earth."