Margarita Engle Quotes

• If we knew how to find
  the lost, we would know
  how to rediscover
  the parts of our minds
  left behind
  in battle.

  Margarita Engle

  Mind, Battle, Lost

  Margarita Engle (2008). “The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom”, p.72, Macmillan

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• I feel certain that words
  can be as human
  as people,
  alive
  with the breath
  of compassion.

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  Compassion, People, Alive

  Margarita Engle (2013). “The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Joy and truth both have a way
  of peeking through any dark curtain.

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  Dark, Joy, Peeking

  Margarita Engle (2009). “Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba”, p.73, Macmillan

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• Opinions. Ideas. Possibilities. So many! How can I choose? Between bursts of lightning-swift energy, I enjoy peaceful moments when the whole world seems to be a flowing river of verse and all I have to do is learn how to swim.

  Margarita Engle

  Ideas, Rivers, Swim

  Margarita Engle (2013). “The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In Latin America in general, and Cuba in particular, poets have been the inspiration behind struggles for independence, struggles for freedom of all sorts.

  Margarita Engle

  Latin, Struggle, Inspiration

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• I don't understand the whole thrilling verse, but I love the way poetry turns ordinary words into winged things that rise up and soar!

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  Ordinary, Way, Soar

  Margarita Engle (2012). “The Wild Book”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That is how I think of peace and peace of mind-as timid birds that we have to search for, not bold ones that come looking for us.

  Margarita Engle

  Thinking, Bird, Mind

  Margarita Engle (2009). “Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba”, p.163, Macmillan

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• If only the peace I feel right nowcould be stored up and released laterwhen cruelty surrounds mein the darkduring nightmares.

  Margarita Engle

  Nightmare, Cruelty, Feels Right

  Margarita Engle (2009). “Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba”, p.158, Macmillan

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• My mind soarsand whirlsin a danceof wild fearand graceful hope.

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  Mind

  Margarita Engle (2010). “The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba”, p.135, Macmillan

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• When Reason Breaks is infused with a rare blend of suspense and sensitivity, despair and hope. The poetic spirit of Emily Dickinson shines through the gloom of daily struggles faced by modern teens, as they discover the possibilities where they dwell.

  Margarita Engle

  Struggle, Shining, Despair

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