Samuel Rowland

“The poem is an engine that takes and takes and takes.”
― Sina Queyras, My Ariel

“But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.”
― Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation

“Sometimes I take a step that splits me in two, into the woman who is walking and another woman who steps back, to watch. I wonder what I look like, do I look like an adult with an adult life?”
― Lizzy Stewart, Walking Distance

“I wouldn't have thought it possible for me at this age and at this otherwise fruitful moment in my life to plumb a new low.”
― Alejandro Varela