“Even while we speak, time flies. Seize the day. Trust not in tomorrow.” - Horace
Carpe Diem is a collection of classic works and poems carefully selected to inspire you to live every day with passion and conviction. The book includes soaring poetry, powerful prose, and bold, graphic illustrations that serve as a call to action for all of us on our crazy, ecstatic, tragic, beautiful, heartbreaking, amazing, one-way journey through our lives. Each passage offers its own unique meditation on time, fate, and the art of embracing the moment.
This artful pocket edition is illustrated by Obvious State Founder, Evan Robertson and is printed in the United States on beautiful premium paper. It makes a great gift for literature and art lovers alike.
INCLUDED WRITERS
Horace, Khayyam, Tennyson, Dickinson, Yeats, Housman, Rumi, Wilde, Goethe, James, Conrad, Henley, Marvell, Marlowe, Millay, London, Hesse, Brontë, Gibran, Longfellow, Rilke, Baudelaire, Wordsworth, Frost, Keats and many more.
DETAILS
Obvious State is a creative studio and publisher founded by Nichole and Evan Robertson in 2011.
We make bold, illustrated editions and fine art drawn from the classics.
Our books and prints are available in our shop and in bookstores and boutiques nationwide.
Our work has been featured at The Folger Shakespeare Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The American Writers Museum, The Emily Dickinson Museum, The Library of Congress, The Getty Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art and more.
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Provocative visuals paired with punctuated language, full of surprising visual metaphors, subtext, and insider nudges that reveal themselves slowly.
Our pocket editions are portable art objects made to collect, share, and inspire moments of quiet reflection in an overstimulated digital world.
We’re drawn to language that has stood the test of time, insights that strike a chord, poetry that stretches the imagination, and philosophy that prompts critical thinking.
