[bodyalive]

“I had a stroke and forgot almost everything. My handwriting was big and crooked and I couldn’t walk. I slept a lot. I made lists, a working glossary. Meat. Blood. Floor. Thunder. I tried to understand what these things were and how I was related to them. Thermostat. Agriculture. Cherries Jubilee. Metamodernism. I understand North but I struggle with left. Describing the world is easier than finding a place in it. Doorknob. Flashlight. Landmark. Yardstick.”

— Richard Siken, describing a different poem. (via quotesforintellectuals)

[macrolit]

Giveaway: We’re giving away 12 vintage paperback classics! Won’t they look lovely on your shelf? =) I know… there are only 11 pictured here. You’ll get to choose the 12th from hundreds in my giveaway stack.  Enter to win these classics by: 1) following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblogging this post. We will choose a random winner on 26 June. Good luck! Follow our IG account to be eligible for our IG giveaways. For full rules to all of our giveaways, click here.

[macrolit]

Literary history that happened on 8 April

[detailedart]

Vincent Van Gogh’s stream of thoughts

[literalnobody]

Nothing is funnier to me than Mr Darcy telling his best friend not to propose to the girl he loves bc 1. Her family are unsuitable and 2. She doesn't truly like him enough to marry... only to then himself propose to a woman who is 1. From the exact same family and 2. Has done nothing but roast him since they met

[vintagedarb]

Some more antique book covers for your feed.

[fleuringly]

@weheartit-app/entry/140941420

[macrolit]

Beautiful Gladstone Press editions and bookmarks of The Great Gatsby and Mrs. Dalloway!

[triflingthing]

just give me books & coffee & doughnuts 

[twospringflowers]

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

19th century leather bound prize bindings with marbled fore edges

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll Illustrated by A H Watson London Collins 1939 [reprinted 7 times] this reprint from 1954

[deadpoetsmusings]

Selected Poems of W.B. Yeats

[macrolit]

“Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.” - The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (left) 1934 Modern Library edition (right) 2021 Modern Library edition from ml.books

[macrolit]

Animal Farm, George Orwell

[natreads]

Lovely morning light on International Women’s Day 🌞

Here’s a stack of books written by women who specifically inspire me with their work and creativity

[discardingimages]

bathing cat - medieval French proverb ‘aussi aise que ung chat qui ce baingne'  book of hours, Rouen 15th century.

Paris, BnF, Nouvelle acquisition latine 3134, fol. 18v