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"COOL STORY, POE." "Of puns, it has been said that they who most dislike them are least able to utter them." - Edgar Allan Poe  Spend a little ti...

Imagine Jane Austen sitting at her writing desk mulling over the scene in which Mr. Darcy has just popped THE question. Lizzy takes it in, Jane Aus...

"I KANT EVEN." Dear Kant: Don’t get us wrong. We love you. We really do. We're willing to plod through dense, convoluted sentences to unpack your...

Literary Paris is Obvious State Cofounder, Nichole Robertson's fourth book and a collaboration with Chronicle Books.  "An essential addition to t...

In 2015, we collaborated with Penguin Random House to make a collection of literary postcards. This boxed set contains 100 postcards featuring work...

12 Month Desktop Mini Calendar Bold, graphic interpretations of provocative literary lines provide 12 months of inspiration. This petite calendar i...

The stories and language that inspire the Adventure Stories collection celebrate the fearless wanderers who walk unknown paths and embrace new per...

"Imagination is a good servant and a bad master." - Agatha Christie Spoken by that brilliant Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. A series of interl...

"Even the iris bends when a butterfly lights upon it." - Amy Lowell Amy Lowell worked tirelessly to make poetry relevant again in America. She wa...

"I long to do some good in the world before I leave it." - Anne Brontë From her letters. The author of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë i...

"Wit is well-bred insolence." - Aristotle Always have something unexpected in your pocket. Aristotle may have had this insight over two thousand y...

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"It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth." - Ayn Rand From her novel, Anthem. • 11x14 inch art print with ...

"This is a tale about a tail." - Beatrix Potter This one’s for the cat lovers and the book lovers (so in other words, all the very best people!)....

"Beauty will save the world" - Dostoevsky In the spirit of beauty and connection, we’ve assembled a “Beauty Will Save the World” care package. Wh...

A collection of Obvious State's most popular illustrations in a keepsake, giftable postcard collection. Twenty four unique designs in a tab-lock, ...

LET US GO THEN  The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockBy T. S. Eliot  Illustrated by Evan Robertson   T.S. Eliot’s timeless modernist masterpiece v...

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

WE TWO ALONEA November NightBy Sara Teasdale  Illustrated by Evan Robertson  Sara Teasdales’s dreamy, amorous walk, visually reimagined. This f...

SOMEWHERE WAITING Song of MyselfBy Walt Whitman  Illustrated by Evan Robertson  Walt Whitman's visionary manifesto, visually reimagined.  Caref...

TO LIVE DELIBERATELY Where I Lived, and What I Lived ForBy Henry David Thoreau  Illustrated by Evan Robertson  Henry David Thoreau dropped the g...

MILES TO GO Collected Works By Robert Frost Illustrated by Evan Robertson What is it: An illustrated collection of poems by Robert Frost in a unifi...

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

BEAUTY IS TRUTHCollected Works By John Keats Illustrated by Evan Robertson Three of Keats' most beloved poems, visually reimagined. This fully illu...

This Brontë Sisters Set is a collaboration between Obvious State and Juniper Books. SPECIAL ORDER: Please allow 2-3 weeks for delivery. ...

"Trade your cleverness for wonder." - Rumi "When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter, do they?" - Virginia Wo...

"Strive to know yourself, for it is the most difficult lesson in the world." - Cervantes From the extraordinary Don Quixote.  The maxim "know thys...

"One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind." - Charles Dickens A traveler fades to black, leaving behind winding paths of c...

"I would always rather be happy than dignified." - Charlotte Brontë A cyclist makes her own path. From her novel Jane Eyre. • 11x14 inch art pr...

"I am no bird, and no net ensnares me." - Charlotte Brontë From her classic novel Jane Eyre. Inspired by the three muses of ancient Greece, the il...

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"She was becoming herself, casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment." - Kate Chopin A woman slips off the words that onc...

"All things that pass are wisdom's looking glass." - Christina Rossetti It is often the most difficult lessons in life that shape us into the best...

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"When she raises her eyelids, it's as if she were taking off all her clothes." - Colette The curve of a dress meets the promise of an arresting st...

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"I hate the office; it cuts in on my social life." - Dorothy Parker From one of her Hate Song poems, first published in Vanity Fair in 1919. Arm...

"We are all in paradise but refuse to see it." - Fyodor Dostoevsky Dostoevsky: Survives Russian winters and four years in a Siberian prison camp, m...

"Yours is the music for no instrument" - e e cummings From one our favorite modernist poets, and one of his most sensual, candid collections, Tul...

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

  COOL STORY, POE Edgar Allan Poe once opined, "Of puns, it has been said that they who most dislike them are least able to utter them." Well Poe, ...

"The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing." - Edith Wharton From her novel The Age of Innocence. • 11x14 inch art print with white borde...