Obvious State

"Midway on our life's journey I found myself in a dark wood, For the right way was lost." - Dante Alighieri The opening line of Dante's Inferno set...

"Beauty will save the world." - Fyodor Dostoevsky Out of context, it would be easy to dismiss this quotation as hopelessly naive. But for Dostoev...

"Above all, don't lie to yourself." - Fyodor Dostoevsky From The Brothers Karamazov. This passage is so awesome, we included the entire excerpt i...

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." - Edgar Allan Poe Sanity and insanity reversed. The illustration depicts a man seeking ...

"Yet mad I am not, and very surely do I not dream." - Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat Poe was a master of the unreliable narrator, a madman who wor...

NEVERMORE  The RavenBy Edgar Allan Poe  Illustrated by Evan Robertson  Edgar Allan Poe’s masterful macabre poem, visually reimagined. This ful...

"My candle burns at both ends;it will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh my friends -It gives a lovely light!" - Edna St. Vincent Millay T...

"Do I dare disturb the universe?" - T.S. Eliot A man is trapped in a universe as vast as his desires and as constrained as the expectations that ...

"I will write my story for my better self." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning From her poem Aurora Leigh.  • 11x14 inch art print with white border •...

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Bronte, "Wuthering Heights  An egg in its nest, composed of two halves that f...

"Hope is the thing with feathers" - Emily Dickinson For this illustration, we used Emily Dickinson's own words as line elements to create the "th...

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain." - Emily Dickinson Dickinson's extraordinary poetry at its most intimate.  It ne...

"Forever is composed of Nows" - Emily Dickinson Why is it that the most profound human truths are so often conveyed by the most eye-roll inducing,...

"There is a certain slant of light on winter afternoons" - Emily Dickinson Dickinson's famously rigid meter and rhyme scheme seemed quaint and alm...

Hope is the Thing Collected Works by Emily Dickinson Illustrated by Evan Robertson A collection of poems by Emily Dickinson in a unified narrative....

"The sea is big and old." - Ernest Hemingway Too simple for your taste? Perhaps he should have gone with "the sea is boundless and ancient," or "t...

"They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered." - F. Scott Fitzgerald The roaring twenties, when booze was illegal and...

"Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story." - F. Scott Fitzgerald Truth may be stranger than fiction, but let's face it: fiction is fun. Re...

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." - F. Scott Fitzgerald The final line of The Great Gatsby, the Fi...

"Working in silence, the machine became invisible." - Franz Kafka A gentleman strides forth on a treadmill of ones and zeros, oblivious to the inv...

"Once you learn to read you will be forever free." - Frederick Douglass No author better captured or more fully experienced the importance of lear...

"One who has a why can bear almost any how" - Nietzsche From The Twilight of the Idols: or How to Philosophize with a Hammer First: How awesome is...

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep." - Robert Frost Frost’s most anthologized and beloved poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is decep...

"And miles to go before I sleep" - Robert Frost From his classic poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. • Pocket sized: 3.5 x 5 inches • Prou...