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

Desire Poetry Desired Madwomen Gabriela Mistral

Book:Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral

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“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.”

Poetry Fate Hatred Foresight Visions Madwomen Gabriela Mistral Crazed

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“And she grasps it because it's her fate.”

Fate Madwomen Gabriela Mistral

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“Everyone left and we have remained on a path that goes on without us.”

Poetry Lost Path Sad Lonely Alone Left Behind Madwomen Gabriela Mistral

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“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.”

Poetry Lost Sad Alone Traveler Madwomen Gabriela Mistral Comfortless

Book:Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral

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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.”

Poetry Fate Greek Mythology Visions Psychic Greek Tragedy Cassandra Madwomen Gabriela Mistral Unavoidable

Book:Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral

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“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.”

Poetry Suicide Guilt Haunted Greek Tragedy Electra Madwomen Gabriela Mistral Clytemnestra Orestes

Book:Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral

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

Soul Poetry Sad Haunting Madwomen Gabriela Mistral

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

Beautiful Poetry Sea Seas Madwomen Gabriela Mistral

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“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.”

Poetry Knowledge Contradictory Madwomen Gabriela Mistral

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“I could have not returned, and I've returned.”

Return Madwomen Gabriela Mistral Returned

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