Still Life With Books 📚

[Carlyanne McConnell @CarlyanneMcCon1]

"There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed."
~ Washington Irving

🎨George Elgar Hicks

[Sam @SamWalksALot]

“How doth the little busy bee 🐝
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower.”

Isaac Watts, Against Idleness, 1715

#ClassicLitMonday

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

An evensong I heard beyond the hill,
Whose water'd notes did cleanse my aching heart;
And its gentle breeze of dew-spun amber chill,
Did weave a tale to draw me from afar.

~ Cian

'Fantasy in Twilight' (1911) 🎨 Edward Robert Hughes

[LiterateIndy @LiterateIndy]

The garden at Lakefield, near Sawrey.
(Beatrix Potter, 1902)

[Sam @SamWalksALot]

“When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path. What you do not like when done to yourself, do not do to others.”

- Confucius The Doctrine of the Mean.

#ClassicLitMonday

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

... and into The Week we go!

[Ina de Bree @InadeBree]

‘ I imagine the earth when I am no more: Noting happens, no loss, it’s still a strange pageant, (...) dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born. Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.’ - Czeslaw Milosz | @evastrus

[LiterateIndy @LiterateIndy]

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace...
(Helene Hanff, Q's Legacy)

[Still Life With Books 📚 @StillLifeWBooks]

@tobysnews None of those, for real, I thought he was Desdemona until I checked the cast of the movie properly 😅😂

[Jennifer Grantham @Quill_Jen]

"Delicately, like the petals of a flower. Light the first page, light the second page. Each becomes a black butterfly. Beautiful, eh? ... The floor littered with swarms of black moths that had died in a single storm."

-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
#ClassicLitMonday

[Sam @SamWalksALot]

“All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.”

Richard II, A1S3
#ShakespeareSunday

[gregorio catarino @gregcatarino1]

"I wanted a library because dealing with books means dealing with life."

(George Whitman)

Illustration by Olga Baumert

[Still Life With Books 📚 @StillLifeWBooks]

“His sparking eyes, replete with wrathful fire,
More dazzled and drove back his enemies
Than mid-day sun fierce bent against their faces.“
—Henry VI, Part 1 [I, 1]

#ShakespeareSunday
#BlackSails

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[Still Life With Books 📚 @StillLifeWBooks]

@tobysnews @rawrsa Happy birthday! 🎂🎉💐🥳

[Still Life With Books 📚 @StillLifeWBooks]

@tobysnews 1 and 2! 😄