"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...
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"Leaving for leaving's sake, Hearts light as balloons: Let's go!" - Charles Baudelaire, Le Voyage From his poem Le Voyage, this quotation beautifu...
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"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...
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"The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing." - Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence. "You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, ...
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"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...
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"The sea is big and old." - Ernest Hemingway Too simple for your taste? Perhaps he should have gone with "the sea is boundless and ancient," or "t...
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"It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine." - Frances Hodgson Burnett A peek through a keyhole reveals a hidden, m...
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"Once you learn to read you will be forever free." - Frederick Douglass No author better captured or more fully experienced the importance of lear...
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"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...
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"It is not down in any map; true places never are." - Herman Melville From Chapter 12 of his masterpiece, Moby Dick, in which we learn the origin ...
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"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter." - John Keats From his exquisite poem Ode on a Grecian Urn. Keats pushes all the right b...
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"Have you ever heard the earth breathe?" - Kate Chopin With a little assistance from the wind, the branches and a bird work together to reveal a l...
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"My soul has grown deep like the rivers." - Langston Hughes The river may have carried him to unfamiliar places, but he’s not adrift. • 11x14 ...
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"She is too fond of books and it has turned her brain." - Louisa May Alcott From her novel Work: A Story of Experience. • 11x14 inch art print ...
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"Imagination! Who can sing thy force?" - Phyllis Wheatley From her lyrical poem, On Imagination Phyllis Wheatley’s story is exceptional. As a you...
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"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson was a prolific essayist and philosopher who led the transcendent...
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"The woods are lovely, dark and deep" - Robert Frost Frost’s most anthologized and beloved poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is decept...
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"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...
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"Trade your cleverness for wonder." - Rumi As literature lovers, we’re the first to champion words that exquisitely describe the nature of things....
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"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...
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"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...
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"Exit, pursued by a bear." - William Shakespeare "Exit, pursued by a bear" is a stage direction from Shakespeare’s "The Winter’s Tale" that is inf...
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"I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it." - William Shakespeare What is it about an undersized box that cats find so irresistib...
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"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...
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