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"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again." - Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby I’ve thought about this quotation often ove...
View full details"When she raises her eyelids, it's as if she were taking off all her clothes." - Colette The curve of a dress meets the promise of an arresting st...
View full details"Beauty will save the world." - Fyodor Dostoevsky Out of context, it would be easy to dismiss this quotation as hopelessly naive. But for Dostoev...
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"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Bronte, "Wuthering Heights An egg in its nest, composed of two halves that f...
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"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"They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered." - F. Scott Fitzgerald The roaring twenties, when booze was illegal and...
View full details"Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story." - F. Scott Fitzgerald Truth may be stranger than fiction, but let's face it: fiction is fun. Re...
View full details"Their lips brushed like wild flowers in the wind." - F. Scott Fitzgerald From his novel This Side of Paradise. This particular quote serves as a ...
View full details"The truth is simple, so we complicate the journey." - George Sand From her collected letters. • 11x14 inch art print with white border • Premi...
View full details"I was a flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me u...
View full details"Her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood." - James Joyce From the gorgeous short story "Araby" in his collection "Dubliners." It's the...
View full details"I am half agony, half hope." - Jane Austen The letter has arrived! But what fortune will it bring? What word? Happiness or ruin? • 11x14 inch ...
View full details" It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." - Jane Austen The opening...
View full details"He tried not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking." - Leo Tolstoy This is one of the ...
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"I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees." - Pablo Neruda From Neruda's collection Veinte poemas de amor y una canción deses...
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"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"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...
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