Desiring Truth
"Desiring truth, awaiting it, laboriously distilling a few words, forever desiring - truth." - Virginia Woolf, Monday or Tuesday From her first sh...
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"Desiring truth, awaiting it, laboriously distilling a few words, forever desiring - truth." - Virginia Woolf, Monday or Tuesday From her first sh...
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"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...
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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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"I long to do some good in the world before I leave it." - Anne Brontë From her letters. The author of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë i...
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"Above all, don't lie to yourself." - Fyodor Dostoevsky From The Brothers Karamazov. This passage is so awesome, we included the entire excerpt in...
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Dostoevsky is as much a philosopher as he is a novelist. But unlike a philosopher, his arguments are developed between the conflicting points of vi...
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"Enter pirates." - Shakespeare Huh? Why, of everything the Bard wrote would we pick this absurd stage direction? Because it was there, my friend....
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"To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild FlowerHold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd Eternity in an hour" - William Blake Bl...
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"Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy." - Marcus Aurelius In this illustration, the interconnectedness of the physical and the conceptual...
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"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...
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"I am excessively diverted." - Jane Austen Aren't we all, though? With any luck, it's the fault of a delicious read. SPECIAL OFFERAny 3 prints for...
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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 infa...
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"Fate is a cunning hussy." - Elizabeth Gaskell An amusing zinger from an unfairly overlooked Victorian novelist. The fun passage (which defies th...
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"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...
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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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"Forever is composed of Nows" - Emily Dickinson Why is it that the most profound human truths are so often conveyed by the most eye-roll inducing,...
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"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 ...
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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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This carefully crafted collection of Dickinson’s poems blends poetic verse and visual storytelling into a seamless narrative that shines a light on...
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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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"I am no bird, and no net ensnares me." - Charlotte Brontë Despite being the daughters of a vicar and growing up in a parsonage, Anne, Charlotte, ...
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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." - Edgar Allan Poe Sanity and insanity reversed. The illustration depicts a man seeking ...
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"I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am. " - Jane Austen This sharp, ironic voice came so easily to Austen that it pe...
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"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...
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