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"Their lips brushed like wild flowers in the wind." - F. Scott Fitzgerald From his novel This Side of Paradise. This particular quote serves as a ...

"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...

"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...

"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, ...

"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...

"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...

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

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

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

"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...

"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...

"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...

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

"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...

"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...

"All the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow." - Leo Tolstoy No one one does heavy books with heavy themes quite like Tolstoy. But if yo...

"Her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood." - James Joyce From the gorgeous short story "Araby" in his collection "Dubliners." It's the...

"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...

"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 ...

"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...

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