Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
Gabriela Mistral
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“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.”
“The gods give, like twin flowers, power and ruin, memory and oblivion.”
“Everyone left and we have remained on a path that goes on without us.”
“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.”
“Now what mattered to me no longer matters.”
“She loved only her lover and Iphigenia in the narrowness of her cold breast.”
“No happiness or pain, no more forgetting.”
“Like cider and aged wine I was desired, desired like the sheer blue cascade that dazzles the eyes of the thirsty.”
“If it's all been dream and delirium may death ripen me in my dream.”
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