Kai

Living life under the royal stars. 🎶Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?🎶

[Kai @UnderAntares]

A thread about #EmilyDickinson, my main crush ❤️, who was #BornOnThisDay 192 years ago.

She arguably was the greatest poet ever in the English language:

“Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.”

[Kai @UnderAntares]

@PinkTaxiRunner @Parisianaes1 @Donald_G_Redman @karimbitar @jchrisb123 @ALJVD1 @paulsportrait @redbicycle1 @subbo7 @TikotheShihTzu @SoleneVosse @Popswithhops @GOTHICRICH Wow!

[Kai @UnderAntares]

“Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so?
Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.”

—William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

#ShakespeareSunday

🎨 Edward Alfred Cucuel

[Kai @UnderAntares]

Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden.

T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton

[Kai @UnderAntares]

“She had a volume of Proust in case at night she got bored. To be honest she had never gotten around to trying Proust, but Cambridge had made her the kind of person who wanted to have read Proust, and she figured Hell was a good place to start.”

— R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

[Kai @UnderAntares]

When in disgrace with fortune & men’s eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state
& trouble deaf heaven w/ my bootless cries
& look upon myself & curse my fate
…
Haply I think on thee & then my state
Like to the lark at break of day…sings hymns at heaven’s gate

#ShakespeareSunday

[Kai @UnderAntares]

“All great and precious things are lonely.”

—John Steinbeck, East of Eden

[Kai @UnderAntares]

@HeyJude58906691 Oh yes, I read this book two years ago and liked it a lot.

[Kai @UnderAntares]

“What continues to surprise me, and what I still don't understand, is not the reason that love ends but the way that it endures.”

—Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

#BookWormSat

[Kai @UnderAntares]

“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”

—John Steinbeck, East of Eden

#BookChatWeekly

[Kai @UnderAntares]

“What continues to surprise me, and what I still don't understand, is not the reason that love ends but the way that it endures.”

—Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

#BookWormSat

[Kai @UnderAntares]

“Time simply floated open and started to expand. Time held the two of us in light, inside a space so vast it might have reached the heavens, and turned eternal.”

—Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories

#BookChatWeekly

[Kai @UnderAntares]

“This feels good, I thought. I'm just happy he's here. I don't need him to be mine. I wanted to appreciate him the way I did giant trees in the park, which gave people shelter and relief but didn't belong to anybody.”

—Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories

#BookChatWeekly

[Basho Society @BashoSociety]

from which star
will you come?
autumn wind

Issa

[Kai @UnderAntares]

“This feels good, I thought. I'm just happy he's here. I don't need him to be mine. I wanted to appreciate him the way I did giant trees in the park, which gave people shelter and relief but didn't belong to anybody.”

—Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories

#BookChatWeekly

[Sophia Proneikos @Pergament_F]

"Hell is other people before morning coffee."
Sartre

[Kai @UnderAntares]

“Time simply floated open and started to expand. Time held the two of us in light, inside a space so vast it might have reached the heavens, and turned eternal.”

—Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories

#BookChatWeekly

[Kai @UnderAntares]

“Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so?
Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.”

—William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

#ShakespeareSunday

🎨 Edward Alfred Cucuel

[Kai @UnderAntares]

@jacqueboatman Haha well I’ve got the Oxford Book of English Verse in one hand and a wee dram of scotch in the other…

[Kai @UnderAntares]

Late summer evening….

[Kai @UnderAntares]

@CBwordstuff When I go for my weekly bike ride I sometimes pass this old barn and from that point on, Tin Roof Rusted loops in my head 🤣