Art Prints

"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, ...

"She was becoming herself, casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment." - Kate Chopin This poignant quotation is from Chopi...

"My candle burns at both ends;it will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh my friends -It gives a lovely light!" - Edna St. Vincent Millay T...

"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...

"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...

"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...

"I am excessively diverted." - Jane Austen Are't we all, though? With any luck, it's the fault of a delicious read. • 11x14 inch art print with...

"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,...

"Desiring truth, awaiting it, laboriously distilling a few words, forever desiring - truth." - Virginia Woolf, Monday or Tuesday From her first sh...

"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...

"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...

"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...

"Imagination! Who can sing thy force?" - Phyllis Wheatley From her lyrical poem, On Imagination Phyllis Wheatley’s story is exceptional. As a you...

"Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds." - George Eliot From her novel Adam Bede. • 11x14 inch art print with white border •...

"Yes I do, darling, I love you." - Zora Neale Hurston We discovered this disarmingly simple, yet powerful quotation while reading one of Ms. Hurst...

"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...

" 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...

"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...

"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, ...

"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...

"The truth is simple, so we complicate the journey." - George Sand From her collected letters. • 11x14 inch art print with white border • Premi...

"Fate is a cunning hussy." - Elizabeth Gaskell An amusing zinger from an unfairly overlooked Victorian novelist. The fun passage (which defies t...

"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 ...

"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...

"Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I." - Christina Rossetti From her short work, Who has seen the wind.  Rossetti greatly admired the Ro...

"I taste a liquor never brewed" - Emily Dickinson From Emily Dickinson's ecstatic poem on communing with nature. We used another line from the po...

"There is no denying the wild horse in us." - Virginia Woolf She’s all poise and pearls, but look closer: Behind the passive exterior, a passion...

"And the Spring would come again! Oh, it would come again!" - Willa Cather From her novel O Pioneers! The illustration depicts several themes from...

"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose." - Gertrude Stein From her poem, Sacred Emily.  The rose, rich with meaning and cultural weight, has become ...

"I will write my story for my better self." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning From her poem Aurora Leigh.  • 11x14 inch art print with white border •...

"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...

"Until we are all free, we are none of us free." - Emma Lazarus Best known for her poem The New Colossus, which is inscribed on the Statue of Li...

"I hate the office; it cuts in on my social life." - Dorothy Parker From one of her Hate Song poems, first published in Vanity Fair in 1919. Arm...

"The libraries of the world are thrown open to me." - Mary Shelley From the novel The Last Man by Mary Shelley. • 11x14 inch art print with whi...

"Imagination is a good servant and a bad master." - Agatha Christie Spoken by that brilliant Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. A series of interl...

"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...

"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...

"If you are scorched earth, I will be warm rain." - Murasaki Shikibu This lovely line is from Shikibu’s 11th century, profoundly influential work ...

"Prudence allows too little room for the mysterious whisperings of life." - Margaret Fuller This was Fuller's advice to Emerson on living a little...

"Fate is strong, but love is stronger." - Emily Brontë From her poem The Two Children. • 11x14 inch art print with white border • Premium, fine ...

"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 ...

"And now - unwittingly you've made me dream of violets" - Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson From her poem Sonnet, written in 1922. Poet, essayist, diarist...

"Every mother should be a true artist." - Frances Harper From her short story, The Two Offers. It was the first short story published by an Afric...

"Without knowledge, there can be no morality." - Mary Wollstonecraft From her essay, A Vindication of the Rights of Women. • 11x14 inch art pri...

"Individuality is more than nationality." - Sui Sin Far From her collection Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian, 1890. Sui Sin Far as ...

"What is freedom to a nation, but freedom to the individuals in it?" - Harriet Beecher Stowe From her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. • 11x14 inch ar...

"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...

"To sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine." - Lucy Maud Montgomery Despite all of the misfortunes and challenges, Anne...