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Happy February! We're not the roses and chocolate types, but there's something about February that instigates reflection on that noblest of human emotions: Love. Here's a roundup of our more romantic work.  For the romantic idealist. Do you dare with...

"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...

The 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,...

We 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...

Happy 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...

  The 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...

"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!)...

  Rhapsody 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...

Sara 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...

"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,...

STOPPING 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...

"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...