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Brief author info: Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) Chilean poet, teacher and diplomat. Held various positions in international education and culture; Chilean consul in Italy; received Nobel Prize in literature (1945).
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In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have only my hard breath, my reason and my madness. I cling to the vine of my prayer. I tend it at the root of the stalk of night.
Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.
I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.
I have a faithful joy and a joy that is lost. One is like a rose, the other, a thorn. The one that was stolen I have not lost.
The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.
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