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Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral QUOTES

Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral QUOTES

1 " Because she—you hear her—she's calling,
and is always going to call, and it's better
both of us die by the dagger without anyone
seeing us, Orestes, and die a fit death. "

― Gabriela Mistral , Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral

2 " I, Electra, fingering my garments
and my face, for in hours I was changed.
Now I am merely one who has killed. "

― Gabriela Mistral , Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral

3 " I am Cassandra—she who, without asking,
understood it all and still came to her fate,
I, Cassandra, full of visions,
who sees her own death without turning away,
and hears in the night the day that follows. "

― Gabriela Mistral , Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral

4 " She loved only her lover and Iphigenia
in the narrowness of her cold breast. "

― Gabriela Mistral , Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral

5 " And he keeps listening to seas
that love nothing but themselves.
But maybe now he listens to nothing,
stalled in forgetfulness and salt. "

― Gabriela Mistral , Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral

6 " Everyone left and we have remained
on a path that goes on without us. "

― Gabriela Mistral , Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral

7 " Like cider and aged wine I was desired,
desired like the sheer blue cascade
that dazzles the eyes of the thirsty. "

― Gabriela Mistral , Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral

8 " I don't want to know, but I would like
to know it all from your own mouth,
how she fell, what she said when she screamed
and whether she cursed or blessed you. "

― Gabriela Mistral , Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral

9 " The bronze of the door is worthless, alas,
to keep me from seeing her who comes
by the walks of myrtles to search me out
drunk with hatred and crazed by fate. "

― Gabriela Mistral , Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral

10 " If it's all been dream and delirium
may death ripen me in my dream. "

― Gabriela Mistral , Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral

11 " This salt mist blots out everything
that comforts and speaks to the traveler:
roads, bridges, towns, trees.
There's no face I might see and know,
only the mist whose insistent hand
runs over our faces and flanks. "

― Gabriela Mistral , Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral

12 " The gods give, like twin flowers,
power and ruin, memory and oblivion. "

― Gabriela Mistral , Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral

13 " The night itself is riddled with her,
wide with her, and alive with her.
It seems that it has no word
or other traveler, no other secret sign. "

― Gabriela Mistral , Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral

14 " Now what mattered to me no longer matters. "

― Gabriela Mistral , Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral

15 " I killed a woman in me:
one I did not love. "

― Gabriela Mistral , Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral

16 " Already we mistrust wakefulness;
if we are dreaming, then let us dream,
until our dream convinces us. "

― Gabriela Mistral , Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral

17 " I could have not returned, and I've returned. "

― Gabriela Mistral , Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral

18 " A poor humiliated love
burns in the house I see.
In the vastness of the world,
full of hard marvels,
this love exists and suffers,
wounded as no other. "

― Gabriela Mistral , Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral

19 " And she grasps it because it's her fate. "

― Gabriela Mistral , Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral

20 " If ever we two had a soul, let our soul
—keep on walking and leave us behind. "

― Gabriela Mistral , Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral