#great literature

[sixbucks]

"You become. It takes a long time. why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby.

But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand."

Margery Williams -The Velveteen Rabbit, 1922.

Illustration from The Velveteen Rabbit by William Nicholson.

#margery Williams #the velveteen rabbit #be real #you get loose in your joints and very shabby #great literature

[obligatory-decomposition]

„Let me gift you violets, my love,

A purple of highest monarchy—

A thaumaturgic Gutting of your senses

in the petal-scented beds of Aphrodite.

Let me gift you sweet-figs, my sun,

A sticky sweetness as that of you—

Let me dig into the Depth, honey-dripped walls,

taste, with reverence, of intoxicating Dew.

Let me gift you fine lyres, my heart,

A golden-gilded valley of string—

To pluck and elicit Desire of you,

observe you, see how under my fingers you Sing.”

A poem from a collection I will probably never publish. Inspired by the works of Rupi Kaur and Emily Dickinson.

#poetry #literature #sapphism #sapphic poetry #greek texts #great literature #booklr #book tumblr #author #writeblr #writers on tumblr #writblr #writing inspiration #there’s just something so inherently homosexual about pomegranates #and figs tbh

[its-all-down-hill]

#lmao #great literature

[butchdonne]

what studying literature feels like

#it’s always one of these two. #either i have a great point in my head i just can’t express it right or i have OUGHDGDHHD in my head and i need to make that useful……. #pip squeaks #literature

[too-cool-for-facebook]

The Mahabharata, aka the Ancient Indian Game of Thrones

#spicy hinduism #religious humor #great literature #world mythology

[eftsoonswriter]

Why Read Dante Again and What You Will Need

Join The Eftsoons Writer on our annual trek through Dante's Divine Comedy. While the official journey begins tomorrow, there are a few things you can do tonight to prepare...

I decided last year after going through Dante’s Divine Comedy in real time, that I was going to make it a yearly occurrence on the blog going forward, regardless of whether or not it was popular or whether anyone even took notice. Narcissistic? You could say that, but it’s not vanity on my part.  Like all true classic literature, The Divine Comedy wasn’t meant to be a one-and-done. It wasn’t…

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#Classic Literature #Dante #Dante Alighieri #Dante Week 2023 #Epic Poetry #Great LIterature #Italian Literature #Poetry #The Divine Comedy

[rebloggingliteraturememes]

#jay gatsby #the great gatsby #nick carraway #chaotic academia #dark acamedia #classic literature #literature memes

[deviika]

F. Scott Fitzgerald // Daniel Kahneman

#daniel kahneman #F. Scott Fitzgerald #the great gatsby #quotes #dark academia #chaotic academia #classic literature #poetry #classic academia #light academia #books #memories

[crimsonclad]

I keep seeing Takes about how recent media like Glass Onion and The Menu aren’t taking “eat the rich” seriously enough to launch real change or revolution and like?? yeah??? popular crowd-pleasing entertainment where horrible rich people Suffer A Comeuppance for the pleasure of an audience is one of the oldest tropes in all of human history???? It is a crowd pleaser! It is the bread (ha) and butter of the Western canon! It is in Chaucer it is in Dante it is in Shakespeare it is the stuff of Dickens and 95% of Agatha Christie and almost every teen movie ever made??????? “look at these horrible rich idiots and hypocrites…and now enjoy their DESTRUCTION” transcends time and space and historical moments! It is so strange to be surprised that Hollywood returns to this well without any intention of seeking anything more transgressive than an audience having a hearty chuckle lmao

#it would be great if we could all walk away from Omelas but expecting billion dollar studios to lead the charge seems a bit misguided #spoilers #kinda but not really more than the trailers tell you #the menu #glass onion #Norton Anthology of Literature #etc #Clue! #The Sting! #now I’m just naming movies I’ve watched this week

[virgil-dantes]

There is something about classic literature that hits different - which is not to say that modern literature lacks depth - there is just something so incredible about reading something and knowing that these same words were consumed by people decades, centuries before you took your first breath. And they loved and felt the stories the way you do& despite all the time separating you you’re still connected…

#classics #classic literature #antigone #frankenstein #dracula #dr jekyll and mr hyde #crime and punishment #the picture of dorian gray #macbeth #hamlet #inferno #the divine comedy #the brothers karamazov #notes from the underground #war and peace #to kill a mockingbird #the great gatsby #the phantom of the opera #the catcher in the rye

[plesiosaurchestra]

what if gatsby was a mushroom and he called people “old spore” instead

#ampere.txt #literature #the great gatsby

[obligatory-decomposition]

What is it about English teachers that makes them very attractive and vaguely homosexual

#great literature #english teacher #english #poetry #articles #school #homosexual #my thoughts are very gay #lesbian #i love women

[its-all-down-hill]

#truth #love #great literature #daphne du maurier #Rebecca #hindi #bibliophile

[quotespile]

But when someone’s gone and you’re the primary keeper of his memory — letting go would be a kind of murder, wouldn’t it? I had so much love for him, even if it was a complicated love, and where is all that love supposed to go? He was gone, so it couldn’t change, it couldn’t turn to indifference. I was stuck with all that love.

Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

#literature #quotes #Rebecca Makkai #The Great Believers #quote #books #lit

[fairydrowning]

"Stop cringing – at your future, at your failure, at yourself in the mirror – and stand up and look directly at who you are. Not who you should've been, but who you are now. Let that person in. Let her be as mediocre and wrong and shameful and sad and miserable and brilliant and hilarious as she wants to be, because she knows exactly what you need to feel good. She has plans for you. She wants to show you what comes next. She wants to take you into the future you're dreading and say, "See? You never would've imagined this."

– Heather Havrilesky

#i hope y'all are doing great and if not then remember after every sunset theres always sunrise #also not posting or replying much because my finals are on next week #books and literature #literature quotes #quotations #heather havrilesky #book #excerpts #fragments #romanticism #positivity

[nanamis-username]

daisy 🥂

#the great gatsby #we all had to watch this in school right #like 50 times #i still luv it tho #daisy buchanan #my art #artists on tumblr #fan art #original art #f scott fitzgerald #art #drawing #illustration #gatsby #carey mulligan #literature #books #baz luhrmann