Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Images

Janelle Tan, from “Second Aubade for Singapore"

Love always hurts.

[text ID: The centre of every poem is this: / I have loved you. / I have had to deal with that.]

Virginia Woolf, from The Waves

Have You Been Long Enough At Table, Leslie Sainz

Kaveh Akbar, from “Personal Inventory: Fearless (Temporis Fila)”, Calling a Wolf a Wolf 

Virginia Woolf, from The Waves

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Lytton Strachey (September 1925)

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus

Today’s the day

Sharon Olds, from "Known to Be Left", Stag’s Leap

Louise Glück, from "Persephone the Wanderer", Averno

Virginia Woolf, from A Room of One’s Own

Sappho, from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho; tr. by Anne Carson