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But love
is a wildly
unpredictable
hurricane wind,
not a swirling
blue ocean
with peaceful
shores.
Margarita Engle Quotes: But love<br> is a wildly<br>
No matter how invisible
I feel, I will always be wrapped
in the memory
of life as a captive.
- Quebrado
Margarita Engle Quotes: No matter how invisible<br>I feel,
The old life is gone, my days are new,
but time is still a mystery
of wishes, and this sad, confusing fragrance.
- Rosa
Margarita Engle Quotes: The old life is gone,
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 Quotes: In Latin America in general,
I think of my feather pen
as something magical
that still belongs
to a wing.

All I need
is paper, ink,
and the courage
to let wild words soar.
Margarita Engle Quotes: I think of my feather
If only the peace I feel right now
could be stored up and released later
when cruelty surrounds me
in the dark
during nightmares.
Margarita Engle Quotes: If only the peace I
I still think of myself
as a broken place, a drifting isle
with no home.
- Quebrado
Margarita Engle Quotes: I still think of myself<br>as
Books are enchanted. Books help me travel.
Books help me breathe.
Margarita Engle Quotes: Books are enchanted. Books help
My mind soars
and whirls
in a dance
of wild fear
and graceful hope.
Margarita Engle Quotes: My mind soars<br>and whirls<br>in a
I would have run away
Into the forest
To live in a nest
Made of dreams
And green leaves
Margarita Engle Quotes: I would have run away<br
I feel like ...
the boy lost somewhere
between the torment of memory
and a few fragile shards
of hope.
Margarita Engle Quotes: I feel like ... <br>the
What more do I need?
I don't know how my book
will end.
All I know is that love
is not the modern invention
of rebellious young girls.
Love is ancient.
A legend.
The truth.
Margarita Engle Quotes: What more do I need?<br>
The Little War?
How can there be
a little war?
Are some deaths
smaller than others,
leaving mothers
who weep
a little less?
Margarita Engle Quotes: The Little War?<br>How can there
Marriage without love is just one more twisted form of slavery.
Margarita Engle Quotes: Marriage without love is just
I feel certain that words
can be as human
as people,
alive
with the breath
of compassion.
Margarita Engle Quotes: I feel certain that words<br>
Is there any way that two people from faraway places can ever really understand each other's daydrems?
Margarita Engle Quotes: Is there any way that
My heart drums with gratitude.
My thoughts sing
with hope.
Margarita Engle Quotes: My heart drums with gratitude.<br>My
When all else fails, trust the library.
Margarita Engle Quotes: When all else fails, trust
Seventh grade. Eleven years old. A bookworm-misfit with long black braids, childish white socks, pointy pink glasses, and no courage for flirting. It's doesn't take long to learn that I'm ridiculous.
Margarita Engle Quotes: Seventh grade. Eleven years old.
Without even trying to be a teacher,
Fredrika is teaching us,
Showing us how to see things in new ways
Instead of always thinking
The same old thoughts
That have been passed along by strangers
Day after day, year after year
Without any spirit of amazement
Or wonder,
Margarita Engle Quotes: Without even trying to be
Danger is a chain ... passed from one wounded child to the next. We must stop the danger by breaking the chain. We must learn how to stay safe and be kind.
Margarita Engle Quotes: Danger is a chain ...
Hatred must be a hard thing to learn.
Margarita Engle Quotes: Hatred must be a hard
How long will it be until the two countries I love forgive each other and move on ... I'm not even sure what there is to forgive. Something about Cuba seizing ownership of oil refineries. It's all so confusing. Why should something as ugly as oil affect friendships between nations?
Margarita Engle Quotes: How long will it be
I envy the trees that grow at crossroads. They are never forced to decide which way to go ...
Margarita Engle Quotes: I envy the trees that
Joy and truth both have a way
of peeking through any dark curtain.
Margarita Engle Quotes: Joy and truth both have
Books become my refuge. Reading keeps me hopeful. I fall in love with small poems, the shorter the better- haiku from Japan, and tiny rhymes by Emily Dickinson.
Margarita Engle Quotes: Books become my refuge. Reading
Why can't she see that no two people
are exactly alike? Our hearts and minds
are all different.
Only our dreams share
this same desperate need
to rise
and soar...
Margarita Engle Quotes: Why can't she see that
How can people stay sane in a world that makes no sense?
Margarita Engle Quotes: How can people stay sane
Like King Midas, I am left with nothing
but this unreasonable hope
that, somehow, my strange life
and my lost family
will return
to normal.
Margarita Engle Quotes: Like King Midas, I am
I am alone
and my heart
is my own.

Loneliness.
Solitude.
The first is a curse,
the second a blessing.
I would rather be a hermit
than live with a stranger
who would make me feel
even more lonely
than when I am
truly
alone.
Margarita Engle Quotes: I am alone<br />and my
Can it be true that freedom only exists when it is a treasure, shared by all?
Margarita Engle Quotes: Can it be true that
I sing without knowing what my song means, and whether the listening world is amazed or wounded.
Margarita Engle Quotes: I sing without knowing what
Night simply drapes itself over the day
As if someone had lowered a curtain.
The sky glitters and moves,
Filled with shooting stars and fireflies.
Margarita Engle Quotes: Night simply drapes itself over
It's a sight I plan to remember, this spontaneous unity when faced with disaster.
Margarita Engle Quotes: It's a sight I plan
I have spent all my years
accepting sad truths.
- Quebrado
Margarita Engle Quotes: I have spent all my
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 Quotes: Opinions. Ideas. Possibilities. So many!
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 Quotes: If we knew how to
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