“Give me your hand and we will dance; give me your hand and you will love me.”

— Gabriela Mistral · Friendship quote

Give me your hand and we will dance; give me your hand and you will love me. — Gabriela Mistral quote card
Poet and educator · 1889 – 1957

Chilean poet, educator and diplomat who in 1945 became the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her collections Desolación and Ternura sing of motherhood, children, nature and the rural poor she spent her life teaching.

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