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“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.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
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.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
“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.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
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.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
“Everyone left and we have remained
on a path that goes on without us.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
on a path that goes on without us.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
“The gods give, like twin flowers,
power and ruin, memory and oblivion.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
power and ruin, memory and oblivion.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
“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.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
wide with her, and alive with her.
It seems that it has no word
or other traveler, no other secret sign.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
“She loved only her lover and Iphigenia
in the narrowness of her cold breast.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
in the narrowness of her cold breast.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
“If ever we two had a soul, let our soul
—keep on walking and leave us behind.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
—keep on walking and leave us behind.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
“If it's all been dream and delirium
may death ripen me in my dream.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
may death ripen me in my dream.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
“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.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
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.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
“What was it that was never finished,
neither changed nor fulfilled?”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
neither changed nor fulfilled?”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
“And he keeps listening to seas
that love nothing but themselves.
But maybe now he listens to nothing,
stalled in forgetfulness and salt.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
that love nothing but themselves.
But maybe now he listens to nothing,
stalled in forgetfulness and salt.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
“I, Electra, fingering my garments
and my face, for in hours I was changed.
Now I am merely one who has killed.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
and my face, for in hours I was changed.
Now I am merely one who has killed.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
“Like cider and aged wine I was desired,
desired like the sheer blue cascade
that dazzles the eyes of the thirsty.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
desired like the sheer blue cascade
that dazzles the eyes of the thirsty.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
“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.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
to know it all from your own mouth,
how she fell, what she said when she screamed
and whether she cursed or blessed you.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
“Already we mistrust wakefulness;
if we are dreaming, then let us dream,
until our dream convinces us.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
if we are dreaming, then let us dream,
until our dream convinces us.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
“The past is falling to pieces
like the beggar with his clown-clothes . . .”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
like the beggar with his clown-clothes . . .”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
“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.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
to keep me from seeing her who comes
by the walks of myrtles to search me out
drunk with hatred and crazed by fate.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
“Already she was climbing the wind,
already was not and didn't know it . . .”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
already was not and didn't know it . . .”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
“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.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
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.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
“Nos manchan y nos llagan, creo yo, los delitos del matón rural que roba previos de indios, vapulea hombres y estupra mujeres sin defensa a un kilómetro de nuestros juzgados indiferentes y de nuestras iglesias consentidoras”
― Bendita mi lengua sea. Diario íntimo
― Bendita mi lengua sea. Diario íntimo
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