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Margarita Engle

Margarita Engle Books

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Margarita Engle is an American writer known for her works in children's literature and poetry. Born on September 2, 1951, she has a passion for literature and poetry from a young age. Engle's works have been highly praised by readers and critics for their rich imagination and emotional expression.

Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings

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“There is no place more lonely Than a rich man's home.”

Wealth Loneliness Spaces

Book:The Firefly Letters

Source: The Firefly Letters

“Always say unhoused instead of homeless so i'll know that its temporary and not an intrinsic aspect of my character, but i'm pretty sure that when she drives home at the end of each day she returns to a place that makes her feel homefull not just housed.”

Inspirational Home Homeless

Book:Wild Dreamers

Source: Wild Dreamers

“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.”

Loneliness Solitude Alone Hermit

Book:The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist

Source: The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist

“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.”

Night Stars Peace Imagery

Book:The Firefly Letters

Source: The Firefly Letters

“Once I've mastered the art of pretending that I don't care what other kids think of me, I start to pay attention in class, discovering that I love library research for history term papers about ancient lands. It feels like a form of time travel.”

Learning Time Travel Discovering Libraries

Book:Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings

Source: Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings

“The Little War? How can there be a little war? Are some deaths smaller than others, leaving mothers who weep a little less?”

War Death Loss Civil War War Of Independence

Book:The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom

Source: The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom

“Does the work of a girl always have to be so anonymous?”

Feminism Thought Provoking

Book:Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings

Source: Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings

“I can't understand why dark northern soldiers and light ones are separated into different brigades. The dead are all buried together in hasty mass graves, bones touching.”

Race Prejudice Equality Dead Seperation Color Of Your Skin

Book:The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom

Source: The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom

“Do I have to admit that I'm half Cuban and half American, or should I go even further, and explain that Dad's parents were born in the Ukraine, part of Soviet Russia? Or am I just entirely American, all the fractions left behind by immigration from faraway nations?”

Culture Biracial Biracial Protagonist

Book:Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings

Source: Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings

“At the steamy train station in New Orleans, horrifying signs above drinking fountains announce: COLORED. WHITE. Confused, I drink out of both. Why should it matter if a stream of coo, refreshing water pours into my mouth or another?”

Biracial Culture Identity Biracial Protagonist

Book:Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings

Source: Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings

“Hatred must be a hard thing to learn.”

Book:The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom

Source: The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom

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

Ifs Feels Cruelty Nightmare Surround Feels Right

Book:Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba

Source: Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba

“My mind soarsand whirlsin a danceof wild fearand graceful hope.”

Book:The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba

Source: The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba

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

Ifs Knows Mind Lost Left Behinds Know How Battle Left Behind

Book:The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom

Source: The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom

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

Way Joy Dark Curtains Peeking

Book:Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba

Source: Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba

“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!”

Way Whole Turns Ordinary Verses Soar Thrilling

Book:The Wild Book

Source: The Wild Book

“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.”

World Ideas Whole Moments Seems Energy Enjoy Opinion Possibility Rivers Whole World Peaceful Swim Lightning Verses Flowing River

Book:The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist

Source: The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist

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

People Feels Humans Certain Compassion Alive Breaths

Book:The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist

Source: The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist

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

Has Beens Inspiration America Behinds Struggle Particular Poet Independence Latin Cuba Latin America Struggle For Freedom

Author:Margarita Engle

“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.”

Reason Spirit Break Struggle Modern Possibility Despair Shining Suspense Poetic Teens Sensitivity Gloom Emily Daily Struggle

Author:Margarita Engle

“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.”

Thinking Mind Bird Peace Of Mind

Book:Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba

Source: Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba

About the Author

Born: September 2, 1951
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 21

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