George Eliot
"If I were a bird, I would fly about the earth seeking successive autumns." - George Eliot Autumn is here, and this quotation captures our season...
View full details"If I were a bird, I would fly about the earth seeking successive autumns." - George Eliot Autumn is here, and this quotation captures our season...
View full details"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe From The Maxims and Reflections. This is it, isn't it? When presented with the uncertainty of lif...
View full details"Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life." - H. G. Wells I see The Time Machine as a sto...
View full details"The right time is any time that one is still lucky to have" - Henry James A calendar on its side transforms into an arrow. Time's ticking. Let's ...
View full details"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them." - Ida B. Wells Trailblazing journalist Ida B. Wells knew what she stood for a...
View full details"The future is but the present a little further on." - Jules Verne From wagon wheel to nucleus, progress comes full circle. • 11x14 inch art pr...
View full details"She was becoming herself, casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment." - Kate Chopin This poignant quotation is from Chopi...
View full details"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." - Khalil Gibran Gibran's The Prophet is one ...
View full details"Endless lively conversations over endless cups of coffee in literary cafés" - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Created in collaboration with Mr. Ferlinghett...
View full details"Dance as wildly, as noisily, as furiously as you can." - Mark Twain From his travelogue The Innocents Abroad. Mark Twain spent much of his time in...
View full details"Invention does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos." - Mary Shelley From the introduction to her novel Frankenstein. We respo...
View full details"The Future is only dark from outside - Leap into it, and it explodes with Light." - Mina Loy From her manifesto Aphorisms on Futurism, first pub...
View full details"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde From his 1892 play "Lady Windermere's Fan." In our illustration...
View full details"I have nothing to declare except my genius." - Oscar Wilde Wilde is reported to have dropped this zinger upon arrival in the New York Customs Hou...
View full details"Imagination! Who can sing thy force?" - Phyllis Wheatley From her lyrical poem, On Imagination Phyllis Wheatley’s story is exceptional. As a you...
View full details"Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A quotation from Ralph Waldo Eme...
View full details"And miles to go before I sleep" - Robert Frost From his classic poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. Like many, this poem was one of the f...
View full details"Trade your cleverness for wonder." - Rumi As literature lovers, we’re the first to champion words that exquisitely describe the nature of things....
View full details"Out beyond ideas of right and wrong, there is a field. I’ll meet you there." - Rumi A chess board of black and white pieces competing in a zero-s...
View full details"Become a voice." - Sappho From the poetry of Sappho. • 11x14 inch art print with white border • Premium, fine art paper made in New York • Ele...
View full details"Nothing vast enters the realm of mortals without a curse." - Sophocles From his play Antigone, on the temptation to sacrifice wisdom at the altar...
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 b...
View full details"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." - Tennyson From his extraordinary poem Ulysses. The complete excerpt reads; Tho' much is taken, m...
View full details"When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter, do they?" - Virginia Woolf Sometimes we can all use a little perspecti...
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