
Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
"And now - unwittingly you've made me dream of violets" - Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson From her poem Sonnet, written in 1922. Poet, essayist, diarist...
View full details"And now - unwittingly you've made me dream of violets" - Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson From her poem Sonnet, written in 1922. Poet, essayist, diarist...
View full details"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...
View full details"Leaving for leaving's sake, Hearts light as balloons: Let's go!" - Charles Baudelaire, Le Voyage From his poem Le Voyage, this quotation beautifu...
View full details"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...
View full details"Midway on our life's journey I found myself in a dark wood, For the right way was lost." - Dante Alighieri The opening line of Dante's Inferno set...
View full details"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...
View full details"My candle burns at both ends;it will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh my friends -It gives a lovely light!" - Edna St. Vincent Millay T...
View full details"Do I dare disturb the universe?" - T.S. Eliot A man is trapped in a universe as vast as his desires and as constrained as the expectations that ...
View full details"I will write my story for my better self." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Of writing many books there is no end;And I who have written much in pro...
View full details"Fate is a cunning hussy." - Elizabeth Gaskell An amusing zinger from an unfairly overlooked Victorian novelist. The fun passage (which defies t...
View full details"Fate is strong, but love is stronger." - Emily Brontë From her poem The Two Children. • 11x14 inch art print with white border • Premium, fine ...
View full details"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." - Emily Dickinson We love the way this quotation captures Emily Dickinson's quiet streng...
View full details"Hope is the thing with feathers" - Emily Dickinson For this illustration, we used Emily Dickinson's own words as line elements to create the "th...
View full details"I taste a liquor never brewed" - Emily Dickinson From Emily Dickinson's ecstatic poem on communing with nature. We used another line from the po...
View full details"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain." - Emily Dickinson Dickinson's extraordinary poetry at its most intimate. It ne...
View full details"Every mother should be a true artist." - Frances Harper From her short story, The Two Offers. It was the first short story published by an Afric...
View full details"The woods are lovely, dark and deep." - Robert Frost Frost’s most anthologized and beloved poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is dece...
View full details"And miles to go before I sleep" - Robert Frost From his classic poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. • Pocket sized: 3.5 x 5 inches • Prou...
View full details"The life so short, the craft so long to learn." - Geoffrey Chaucer The blades of a pair of dark shears create the silhouette of a mountain, and a...
View full details"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose." - Gertrude Stein From her poem, Sacred Emily. The rose, rich with meaning and cultural weight, has become ...
View full details"Whirl up, sea—whirl your pointed pines,splash your great pineson our rocks,hurl your green over us,cover us with your pools of fir." - H.D. ...
View full details"I resolved never to be conquered." - Harriet Jacobs It goes without saying that Harriet Jacobs was an extraordinary human being. From an illitera...
View full details"My soul has grown deep like the rivers." - Langston Hughes The river may have carried him to unfamiliar places, but he’s not adrift. • Pocket si...
View full details"Beauty is truth, truth beauty" - John Keats Inspired by one of the most famous and hotly debated lines of verse in the English language, this ill...
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