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.”
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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