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      THE BLACK CATBy Edgar Allan Poe View Art Print   For  the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it,...

It’s all a farce,—these tales they tell      About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o’er field and dell,      Because the year is dying.   Such principles are most absurd,—      I care not who first...

THE SYSTEM OF DOCTOR TARR AND PROFESSOR FETHER. By Edgar Allan Poe   DURING the autumn of 18—, while on a tour through the extreme southern provinces of France, my route led me within a few miles of a certain...

HYMN TO INTELLECTUAL BEAUTYPercy Shelley Illustration from our limited edition chapbook, On Autumn.   The awful shadow of some unseen Power          Floats though unseen among us; visiting          This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from...

“Beauty will save the world” - Dostoevsky  Out of context, it's easy to dismiss this quotation as hopelessly naive or optimistic. But it’s complicated. For Dostoevsky, (at least as we see it) "beauty” transcends aesthetics, and is what inspires the...

"Their lips brushed like wild flowers in the wind." - F. Scott Fitzgerald This quote, suggested by Kerri of @myoutfitmatchesmybook, comes from Fitzgerald’s early novel This Side of Paradise. The line serves as a great summary of the novel which...