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“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, Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba
“I feel the heaviness of nightmares
even though I am awake.

How weary I am, how sleepless
and hopeless—there is no escape
from the torment
of wishes.”
Margarita Engle, Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba
“Joy and truth both have a way
of peeking through any dark curtain.”
Margarita Engle, Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba
“I have spent all my years
accepting sad truths.

—Quebrado”
Margarita Engle, Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck
“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, The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
“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, Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba
“How can people stay sane in a world that makes no sense?”
Margarita Engle, Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba
“I will never understand
the whole world

or even
one country.

All I can do
is try to understand
the truth and lies
in the simplest choices
I face
every day.”
Margarita Engle, Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba
“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, The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
“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
“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, Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba
“I feel like...
the boy lost somewhere
between the torment of memory
and a few fragile shards
of hope.

Margarita Engle, 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!”
Margarita Engle, The Wild Book
“I still think of myself
as a broken place, a drifting isle
with no home.

—Quebrado”
Margarita Engle, Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck
“No matter how invisible
I feel, I will always be wrapped
in the memory
of life as a captive.

—Quebrado”
Margarita Engle, Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck
“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, The Wild Book


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