Margarita Engle quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Margarita Engle

Margarita Engle Famous Quotes & Sayings

Discover top inspirational quotes from Margarita Engle on Wise Famous Quotes.

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

Hatred must be a hard thing to learn.

Slavery all day,
and then, suddenly, by nightfall- freedom!

Marriage without love is just one more twisted form of slavery.

I have spent all my years
accepting sad truths.
- Quebrado

No matter how invisible
I feel, I will always be wrapped
in the memory
of life as a captive.
- Quebrado

If only the peace I feel right now
could be stored up and released later
when cruelty surrounds me
in the dark
during nightmares.

Books are door-shaped portals carrying me across oceans and centuries, helping me feel less along.

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

My mind soars
and whirls
in a dance
of wild fear
and graceful hope.

I sing without knowing what my song means, and whether the listening world is amazed or wounded.

Some people are born with words flowing in their veins.

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

I envy the trees that grow at crossroads. They are never forced to decide which way to go ...

I still think of myself
as a broken place, a drifting isle
with no home.
- Quebrado

My heart drums with gratitude.
My thoughts sing
with hope.

I feel like ...
the boy lost somewhere
between the torment of memory
and a few fragile shards
of hope.

Anger is like a disease.
You can catch it.
You can give it.

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!

But love
is a wildly
unpredictable
hurricane wind,
not a swirling
blue ocean
with peaceful
shores.

I would have run away
Into the forest
To live in a nest
Made of dreams
And green leaves

How can people stay sane in a world that makes no sense?

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

Can it be true that freedom only exists when it is a treasure, shared by all?

The old life is gone, my days are new,
but time is still a mystery
of wishes, and this sad, confusing fragrance.
- Rosa

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

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.