When you grow up, your heart dies.

— Louise Glück, from section 2 of “An Adventure,“ Faithful and Virtuous Night: Poems (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014)

— Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait in Letters

— Magda Szabó, from “The Door,” published c. November 1987

— Antonio Machado, tr. by Robert Bly, “Last Night, As I Was Sleeping,”

Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. by Clarissa Aykroyd, from “The Roses,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

Anne Sexton, from The Complete Poems (1999); “Suicide Note,” ed. by Maxine Kumin (x)

— Julia de Burgos, from Song of the Simple Truth; “Dream Of Words,”

— Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, from The Selected Works; “The Mountain Cornel,”

W.S. Merwin, from “Separation,” The Second Four Books of Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 1993)

Ernest Dowson, from The Poems of Ernest Dowson; “Spleen,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

Charles Wright, from China Traces in “Scar Tissue: Poems” (via adrasteiax)

Vladimir Mayakovsky (Russian, 1893-1930) from “A Cloud In Trousers, 1915” (via weltenwellen)

Federico García Lorca, “La Soleá,” Lorca: Selected Poems (via kehrouac)

Audre Lorde, from Vigil in “The Collected Poems Of Audre Lorde” (via adrasteiax)

Rainer Maria Rilke, from The Book of Images; “Storm,” (via honeyfleshed)

Margaret Atwood, from Quattrocento in “Selected Poems II: 1976-1986″ (via adrasteiax)

Anne Sexton, from The Furies (The Fury Of Sundays) in “The Complete Poems Of Anne Sexton” (via adrasteiax)