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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

My mind soarsand whirlsin a danceof wild fearand graceful hope.

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

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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