#the empress yamatohime

[metamorphesque]

— The Empress Yamato Hime (translated by Kenneth Rexroth)

[text ID: Others may forget you, but not I. / I am haunted / by your beautiful ghost.]

#the empress yamatohime #quotes #literature #poetry #poem #dark academia #romantic academia #translated literature #classic literature #light academia #japanese literature

[typewriter-worries]

Spirit Hold, Holly Warburton | Written on the Sky; Poems from the Japanese, The Empress Yamatohime, tr. Kenneth Rexroth ( @feral-ballad ) 

#holly warburton #the empress yamatohime #kenneth rexroth #web-weaving #webweaving #web weaving #parallels #dark academia #dark academia aes #light academia #light academia aes #romantic academia #romantic academia aes #classic academia #classic academia aes

[feral-ballad]

Empress Yamatohime, tr. by Kenneth Rexroth, from Written on the Sky; Poems from the Japanese

[Text ID: “Others may forget you, but not I. / I am haunted by your beautiful ghost.”]

#excerpts #writings #literature #poetry #empress yamatohime #fragments #selections #words #quotes #poetry collection #lit #poetry in translation #typography #japanese literature #japanese poetry #forgetting #longing #love #ghost #remembering #haunting

[megairea]

Others may forget you, but not I. I am haunted by your beautiful ghost.

Empress Yamatohime, from “Others may forget you”; One Hundred Poems from the Japanese (tr. by Kenneth Rexroth)

#empress yamatohime #one hundred poems from the japanese #japanese literature #poetry #literature

[maggiecheungs]

He’s Coming to Me (2019) // untitled poem by Empress Yamatohime (trans. Kenneth Rexroth)

#I think of this poem every time I rewatch bits of this series #it hits the exact same part of my heart as hctm does #he’s coming to me #hctm #ohm pawat #singto prachaya #lakornet #asianlgbtqdramas #thai bl #mesthun #japanese poetry #japanese literature #kenneth rexroth #ellisgifs #thai series #gmmtv series #quoteset

[fanatiquee]

Empress Yamatohime, tr. by Kenneth Rexroth, from Written on the Sky; Poems from the Japanese. (SEEN)

Interview With the Vampire, Anne Rice, emphasis my own. (pg 152 of my online edition.)

#don't reblog <3 #unless you're noah #𝓶𝔂 𝓱𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓽 𝓲𝓼 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓼 ; 𝓛𝓸𝓾𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓽

[pushpopprincess-blog]

Others may forget you, but not I. I am haunted by your beautiful ghost.

The Empress Yamatohime

#The Empress Yamatohime #japanese

[typewriter-worries]

What lived and died between us - haunts me still. 

Places I’ve Taken My Body, Molly Mccully Brown | Written on the Sky; Poems from the Japanese, The Empress Yamatohime, tr. Kenneth Rexroth | Spirit Hold, Holly Warburton | Faces in the Crowd, Valeria Luiselli | The Hoopoe, Mahmoud Darwish | Untitled, E. Perret | Dark Harvest, Joseph Millar | I’m Not Calling You A Liar, Florence + the Machine | Strange Love, Massimiliano Ligabue

#web weaving #web-weaving #webweaving #comparitives #dark academia #classic academia #light academia #romantic academia #chaotic academia #grey academia #dark academia aes #light academia aes #classic academia aes #molly mccully brown #kenneth rexroth #holly warburton #valeria luiselli #mahmoud darwish #joseph millar #florence + the machine #florence welch #literature quote #art #classic lit

[maggiecheungs]

i was tagged by dawy @itoldsunset 🥰💕😘

rule: list 3-5 snippets of literature/media that live in your head rent-free to the point where you have them memorized; write them down from memory, no cheating allowed!

1. others may forget you, but not i. / i am haunted by your beautiful ghost (untitled poem by empress yamatohime, trans. kenneth rexroth). i have so many of rexroth’s translations of classical japanese poetry written on my heart but this one is possibly my favourite (also, i used it for this he’s coming to me gifset so now i get twice as emotional whenever i think about it)

2. my dream, a chimera, is to have both sexes in turn, to satisfy this dual nature; man today, woman tomorrow (mademoiselle de maupin by theophole gautier). this novel was written in 1835 and it’s SO GAY and SO TRANS and the nonbinary main character goes around seducing men and women and i read it when i was fourteen and it made me realise i was queer and the whole thing has lived in my head rent-free ever since. (fyi, my tumblr username actually comes from the main character, théodore de sérannes)

3. neil josten let his cigarette burn down to the filter without taking a drag. he didn’t want the nicotine; he wanted the acrid smoke that reminded him of his mother. (the foxhole court, by nora sakavic). this series is my ultimate comfort read, and i’ve read this series so many times that i know huge chunks of it off by heart. this is the opening line of book one and it is instant serotonin.

4. sara was always asking me, ‘what do you want, callie?’ And finally, i let her know. i answered. (from stop kiss by diana son). this is a fairly recent addition to my mental treasure trove but i haven’t been able to stop thinking about this quote ever since i watched the version of stop kiss that apple lapisara directed. i think about this quote and this scene and i want to sob my heart out. 

5. i told you. i chose you long ago. i was scared you wouldn’t choose me. (from quarantine stories 10: what happened last night?) this is another fairly recent one but I am constantly thinking about the pamkwang confession scene. this line in particular has lived in my head for months now 🥺

tagging @tichawongtipkanon @kittychicha @wjmild @kaonoppakao @pangwave @transtian @tianphupha @ahysopae @shu-yi and literally everyone else who wants to do it (but ofc no pressure!!!!)

#tag game #dawy tag #thanks for the tag dawy this was fun! #i love this sort of thing #mainly because im a literature nerd shhhhhhh #tagged #ellis reads