Matthew Koslowski

“A poem can't free us from the struggle for existence, but it can uncover desires and appetites buried under the accumulating emergencies of our lives, the fabricated wants and needs we have had urged on us, have accepted as our own. It's not a philosophical or psychological blueprint; it's an instrument for embodied experience.”
― Adrienne Rich, What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics

“My task as a language arts teacher is to provide texts that are not so difficult that my students shut down in frustration and not so easy that my students don't push their thinking.”
― Kimberly Hill Campbell, Less Is More: Teaching Literature with Short Texts, Grades 6-12

“It turned out that a person could miss someone she had never met, except in her imagination.”
― Lena Andersson

“Live to the point of tears.”
― Albert Camus