The addressees of one of this author's poems are ordered to "love beauty, which is the shadow of God over the Universe" and to "create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul".
The addressees of one of this author's poems are ordered to "love beauty, which is the shadow of God over the Universe" and to "create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul". The speaker of another of this author's poems asks "Not in the grotto that returns / the echo of my cry?" and years to be "united in one anguished knot / around his bloody neck!". This author of "Decalogue of the Artist" and "To See Him Again" opened one of her collections with a poem that begins "From the icy niche where men placed you / I lower your body to the sunny, poor earth"; that collection was inspired by the suicide of her lover Romelio Ureta. For 10 points, identify this author of the collections Tala, Desolacion, and Sonnets of Death, a female Chilean poet.
The addressees of one of this author's poems are ordered to "love beauty, which is the shadow of God over the Universe" and to "create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul".
Gabriela Mistral [or Lucila de Maria del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga]