Although text editing is powerful, some types of expressions are more naturally represented and manipulated graphically. This paper introduces live literals, or livelits, which allow clients to fill holes of these types by directly manipulating a provider-defined GUI embedded persistently into otherwise symbolic code. Uniquely, livelits are compositional: the GUI can itself contain spliced expressions, which have full editor support and can in turn contain other livelits. Splices are typed and the system ensures that livelits treat splices hygienically. Livelits are also uniquely live: they can offer immediate feedback about the run-time implications of the client’s choices even when splices mention bound variables, because the system continuously gathers closures associated with the hole that the livelit is tasked with filling. This paper introduces livelits with case studies that exercise these novel capabilities. We implement livelits in Hazel, a live programming environment able to typecheck and run programs with holes. We then define a typed lambda calculus that captures the essence of livelits as live graphical macros. The macro expansion process has been mechanized in Agda.