Art Prints

"Some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm." - Willa Cather From her novel The Song of the Lark. • 11x14 inch art print with white b...

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

"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 li...

"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 ...

"To love or have loved, that is enough." - Victor Hugo The entire quote from Les Miserables is, "To love or have loved, that is enough. Demand not...

"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...

"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...

"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?...

"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...

"Once you learn to read you will be forever free." - Frederick Douglass No author better captured or more fully experienced the importance of lear...

"The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing." - Edith Wharton From her novel The Age of Innocence. • 11x14 inch art print with white borde...

"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...

"Solitude sometimes is best society." - John Milton From Paradise Lost, Book Nine. For solitude sometimes is best society,And short retirement urg...

"Wit is well-bred insolence." - Aristotle Always have something unexpected in your pocket. Aristotle may have had this insight over two thousand y...

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." - William Shakespeare Here's to Feste, Touchstone, Lear's fool and ...

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty" - John Keats Inspired by one of the most famous and hotly debated lines of verse in the English language, this ill...

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

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." - Oscar Wilde Don’t let the sharp duds fool you, there’s something pro...

"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...

"And the moon breaks the heart of the ocean." - Zora Neale Hurston The moon holds the ocean in its sway, wrapping a wave into the shape of a face....

"All that on a very small planet that would have to last forever." - Kurt Vonnegut What a bunch of buffoons we must look like to the Tralfamadoria...

"All truths wait in all things." - Walt Whitman An image bifurcated into light and dark. Above, a blade of grass lifts as it's caught in the breez...

"And pluck till time and times are done, the silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun." - W. B. Yeats From his lyrical poem, The S...

"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...

"We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way" - Khalil Gibran From his bestselling masterpiece, The Prophet. The most well known of Gibran's work...

"The walls of my castle are broken, the shadows are many." - Bram Stoker, Dracula When Bram Stoker published gothic horror novel Dracula in 1897, ...

"Love is so short, forgetting is so long." - Pablo Neruda From Neruda's collection Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada, an emotional ...

"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 ...

"I resolved never to be conquered." - Harriet Jacobs It goes without saying that Harriet Jacobs was an extraordinary human being. From an illitera...

"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...

"I shall use my time." - Jack London The treacherous path inscribed on this map dares you to venture north, past the coast lines and jagged island...

"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 ...

"Yet mad I am not, and very surely do I not dream." - Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat Poe was a master of the unreliable narrator, a madman who wor...

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

"Night is a room darkened for lovers." - William Carlos Williams From his poem, Complaint. We love this sensual metaphor. In the illustration, we...

"We are all in paradise but refuse to see it." - Fyodor Dostoevsky Dostoevsky: Survives Russian winters and four years in a Siberian prison camp, ...

"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...

"I stop somewhere, waiting for you." - Walt Whitman From Whitman's masterpiece poem Song of Myself in the Leaves of Grass collection. So much has...

"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...

"Silent but for one Voice that speaks its mighty travail." - Thomas Wolfe A cityscape casts a shadow of trees, marrying the aspirations of nature ...