Art Prints

"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, The Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky in 1879: Survives Russian winters and four ...

"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 ...

"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." - T.S. Eliot The illustration is inspired by an attempt to visualize actual cups of coffee consu...

"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...

"One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind." - Charles Dickens A traveler fades to black, leaving behind winding paths of c...

"Give me books, fruit, French wine, fine weather and a little music." - John Keats We love the spirit of this epicurean wish list, which Keats pet...

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

"The world is filled with the most outrageous nonsense." - Nikolai Gogol From his preposterous farce The Nose, in which a nose goes awol and imper...

"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 ...

"The future is but the present a little further on." - Jules Verne From wagon wheel to nucleus, progress comes full circle. • 11x14 inch art pr...

"The right time is any time that one is still lucky to have" - Henry James A calendar on its side transforms into an arrow. Time's ticking. Let's ...

"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...

"The majority is never right." - Henrik Ibsen One bird leaves the flock, creating a simple equation: the individual is greater than the group. Ins...

"Endless lively conversations over endless cups of coffee in literary cafés" - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Created in collaboration with Mr. Ferlinghett...

"The life so short, the craft so long to learn." - Geoffrey Chaucer The blades of a pair of dark shears create the silhouette of a mountain, and a...

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

"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...

"Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life." - H. G. Wells I see The Time Machine as a sto...

"Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story." - F. Scott Fitzgerald The truth? Meh. Paint your own picture that brings a tear to the mind's e...

"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...

"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it." - John Locke Pens practice writing, and through this study learn to express the ...

"Knowledge is power." - Thomas Hobbes An official document is stripped of any subversive information, leaving only a simple, self-evident truth. ...

"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...

"My evening prayer stole my morning song." - Anne Spencer From her poem The Wife-Woman, 1922. Spencer was an American poet, teacher and civil righ...

"It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine." - Frances Hodgson Burnett A peek through a keyhole reveals a hidden, m...

"All things that pass are wisdom's looking glass." - Christina Rossetti It is often the most difficult lessons in life that shape us into the best...

"The cause of war is preparation for war." - WEB Du Bois An unsuspecting child builds a sandcastle as an impossibly large stockpile of armaments c...

"No god is secure from the lofty flight of mortal thought." - Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz From My Divine Lysis, written in 1680. She was a writer, p...

"Now the white prairie was sky, and the stars lay under my feet." - Zitkala-Ša  From her short story collection American Indian Stories, publish...

"No use kicking, boys." - Charlotte Perkins Gilman It’s three minutes to midnight and she’s kicking off the shackles of history. Now it’s time for...

"The starry heavens above, and the moral law within. - Immanuel Kant SPECIAL ORDER: Ships in 1-2 weeks. An excellent summative statement of Kant's...