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If we knew how to find the lost, we would know how to rediscover the parts of our mindsleft behindin battle.Margarita Engle
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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
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I would have run away Into the forest To live in a nest Made of dreams And green leavesMargarita Engle
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Slavery all day, and then, suddenly, by nightfall- freedom!Margarita Engle
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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
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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
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The child tells me her grandmothershowed her how to cure sadness by sucking the juice of an orange, while standing on a beach. Toss the peels onto a wave. Watch the sadness float away.Margarita Engle
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There is no place more lonely Than a rich man's home.Margarita Engle
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Do I have to admit that I'm half Cuban and half American, or should I go even further, and explainthat Dad's parents were born in the Ukraine, part of Soviet Russia?Or am I just entirely American, all the fractions left behindby immigration from faraway nations?Margarita Engle
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Hatred must be a hard thing to learn.Margarita Engle
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Can it be true that freedom only exists when it is a treasure, shared by all?Margarita Engle
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I can't understand why dark northern soldiers and light ones are seperated into different brigades. The dead are all buried together in hasty mass graves, bones touching.Margarita Engle
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Marriage without love is just one more twisted form of slavery.Margarita Engle