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.

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  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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• Opiniones. Ideas. Posibilidades. Tantas. ¿Cómo puedo elegir? Entre ráfagas de energía fulgurante, disfruto de momentos de paz en los que el mundo entero parece un río caudaloso de versos y lo único que tengo que hacer es aprender a nadar.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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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  Mente

  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.

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  Struggle, Shining, Despair

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