Matthew Koslowski

“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

“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

“The mother says to her daughter: The heart is an island. To reach it, You must cross salt water. This is what the daughter fears: That joy, like sorrow, Must be reached by shipwreck, Tossed on the flotsam of tears.”
― A.E. Stallings, Like: Poems

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