Mary Wollstonecraft
"Without knowledge, there can be no morality." - Mary Wollstonecraft From her essay, A Vindication of the Rights of Women. • 11x14 inch art pri...
View full details"Without knowledge, there can be no morality." - Mary Wollstonecraft From her essay, A Vindication of the Rights of Women. • 11x14 inch art pri...
View full details"If you are scorched earth, I will be warm rain." - Murasaki Shikibu This lovely line is from Shikibu’s 11th century, profoundly influential work ...
View full details"The world is filled with the most outrageous nonsense." - Nikolai Gogol From his preposterous farce The Nose, in which a nose goes awol and imper...
View full details"'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days" - Omar Khayyám Composed in the eleventh century, and translated into English in 1859, The Rubáiyát...
View full details"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." - Oscar Wilde Don’t let the sharp duds fool you, there’s something pro...
View full details"I cast my sad nets into your ocean eyes." - Pablo Neruda From Neruda's collection Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada, an emotional ...
View full details"Love is so short, forgetting is so long." - Pablo Neruda From Neruda's collection Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada, an emotional ...
View full details"Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera have con los cerezos." - Pablo Neruda From Neruda's collection Veinte poemas de amor y una canción dese...
View full details"I know why the caged bird sings" - Paul Laurence Dunbar From his beloved poem,Sympathy, which he wrote in 1899 while working as a clerk at the Lib...
View full details"But every touch draws us together, as a violin's bow that from two strings draws one voice." - Rainer Maria Rilke "How can I pluck my soul apart?...
View full details"I shall make it felony to drink small beer." - William Shakespeare If you want to enjoy yourself, you’ve got to go big or go home! Seriously, it...
View full details"Hell is empty, and all the devils are here." - William Shakespeare This line kicks off the second scene of The Tempest. Stunned by the fury of Pr...
View full details"Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat!" - William Shakespeare So I had my horns done. What do you think? Outrageously expensive, but worth it i...
View full details"I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw." - William Shakespeare Hamlet tosses this little mic-dro...
View full details"For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog." - William Shakespeare From Timon of Athens, the complete quotation is "For thy part, I do wish thou wer...
View full details"Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance." - William Shakespeare This knee-slapper is spoken by conman/rogue/all-around-ne'e...
View full details"Individuality is more than nationality." - Sui Sin Far From her collection Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian, 1890. Sui Sin Far as ...
View full details"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." - T.S. Eliot The illustration is inspired by an attempt to visualize actual cups of coffee consu...
View full details"Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.I have heard the mermaids sing...
View full details"Knowledge is power." - Thomas Hobbes An official document is stripped of any subversive information, leaving only a simple, self-evident truth. ...
View full details"Silent but for one Voice that speaks its mighty travail." - Thomas Wolfe A cityscape casts a shadow of trees, marrying the aspirations of nature ...
View full details"There is no denying the wild horse in us." - Virginia Woolf She’s all poise and pearls, but look closer: Behind the passive exterior, a passion...
View full details"And pluck till time and times are done, the silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun." - W. B. Yeats From his lyrical poem, The S...
View full details"The cause of war is preparation for war." - WEB Du Bois An unsuspecting child builds a sandcastle as an impossibly large stockpile of armaments c...
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