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Mother and poetess do not rhyme, but they go together rather well.
Genesis of an Ambassador (1971)
There is no greater satisfaction than a child who, when grown and at the age of accountability, is able to forgive us.
In Praise of Friendship (1964)
Words rolled forth from her lips, as they should from every human lip, red with shame. And as Rominka pulled the crust off her sins, she cried. Because it hurts to be left naked.
Ciudad Real (1960)
The wind fled into the heights, shrieking mournfully. A washed-out, cold sun shot its arrows down upon that barren hill.
Ciudad Real (1960)
How the earth sings as it spins!/Sings the lightness of its flight,/its freedom, its grace, its joy.
I have confidence not so much in my own abilities as in the generosity of everyone else.
Genesis of an Ambassador (1971)
Spellbound, I contemplate the miracle of being/as at the pure center of a diamond.
What the earth dreamt/is written in the tree.
Goodbye to the earth that danced around me.
Here I am now, at the end, and I still/don't know how I'll face death.
I have come happy as a river,/singing beneath a sky of willows and poplars/to this large, beautiful sea of love./I no longer wait, I live.
He who has a friend lavishes benevolent actions on those around him.
In Praise of Friendship (1964)
All we can do is dream, or die,/dream that we do not die/and, at times, for a moment, wake.
I do not speak through the mouth of my wounds.
The other. With the other/humanity, dialogue, poetry, begin.
Words that the winds disperse like flowers
His own sense of security was so fragile that the face of a chamula, seen through a pane of glass, was enough to shatter it to pieces.
Ciudad Real (1960)
my heart, site of bonfires,/and the body that accompanies me always.
tenderness, the small familiar word/that fits exactly in my mouth.
I warn you that we Mexican women are taking due note of what is happening to our northern cousins and making ready for the day it becomes necessary for us.
Women's Lib, Here (1970)