Art Prints

"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...

"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...

"Midway on our life's journey I found myself in a dark wood, For the right way was lost." - Dante Alighieri The opening line of Dante's Inferno set...

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately." - Henry David Thoreau From his beloved book, Walden—a record of his communion with na...

"Strive to know yourself, for it is the most difficult lesson in the world." - Cervantes From the extraordinary Don Quixote.  The maxim "know thys...

"Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A quotation from Ralph Waldo Eme...

"Some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm." - Willa Cather From her novel The Song of the Lark. In our illustration, an ocean scene i...

"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 lif...

"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 ...

"Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude." - Marcel Proust Some observations are so astute that once you rea...

"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 •...

"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...

"Fate is not only a dramatist, it is also a stage manager." - Machado de Assis From his 1899 novel Dom Casmurro. Widely regarded by critics as on...

"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again." - Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby I’ve thought about this quotation often over t...

"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...

"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, 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...

"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...

"Leaving for leaving's sake, Hearts light as balloons: Let's go!" - Charles Baudelaire, Le Voyage From his poem Le Voyage, this quotation beautifu...

"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...

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

"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...

"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...

"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...