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Maria Rainer Rilke
Read now"How can I pluck my soul apart? How could it break away from you? Oh, for some remote place, Still and quiet, unmoved By your resounding depths. But every touch Draws us together, As a violin’s bow That from two...
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Victor Hugo
Read nowThe full quotation from Les Miserables reads: "To love or have loved, that is enough. Demand nothing more. There is no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life. To love is a fulfillment." In this illustration,...
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Zora Neale Hurston
Read nowWe discovered this disarmingly simple, yet powerful quotation while reading one of Ms. Hurston’s earlier plays, “De Turkey and De Law.” As a theme, “love” is immeasurably broad, and try as they might, authors will never exhaust its depths. But this...
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In Pursuit of Wisdom & Beauty 1.8.2021
Read nowHappy Friday everyone. Here are few things I thought were interesting this week, and a few posts and announcements you may have missed. Yes to life, in spite of everything. This is the first book I'm reading in 2021, discovered via Brain...
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"... and times are done..."
Read nowThe Song of Wandering Aengus I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut and peeled a hazel wand, And hooked a berry to a thread; And when white moths were...
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Endless Lively Conversations...
Read now"Endless lively conversations over endless cups of coffee in literary cafés"- Lawrence Ferlinghetti When we created this illustration in collaboration with Mr. Ferlinghetti and Double Day for the release of Little Boy, we had no idea that this line would take on new (aspirational!)...
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Rhapsody on a Windy Night
Read nowRhapsody on a Windy Night T. S. Eliot Twelve o'clock. Along the reaches of the street Held in a lunar synthesis, Whispering lunar incantations Dissolve the floors of memory And all its clear relations, Its divisions and precisions, Every street...
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A November Night by Sara Teasdale
Read nowSara Teasdales’s dreamy, amorous walk, visually reimagined. This fully illustrated book brings Teasdale's exquisite words to life, following the unbroken "line of lights" that lead the narrator through an evening where everything is made magical by her romantic mood. Although...
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The Tempest, William Shakespeare Illustration
Read now"We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little lives are rounded with a sleep." William Shakespeare From Act IV of The Tempest, this line is spoken by Prospero, as he compares his magical illusions "melted into air,...
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Lovely, Dark & Deep
Read nowSTOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENINGRobert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little...
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New! Gift Packaging
Read now"IT WAS THE CHOICEST GIFT" - Jane Austen The challenges brought on by the pandemic have upended many of our lives, and some days there seems to be an endless stream of unhappy news. But every day while packing orders, we see your...