Emily Dickinson
"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...
View full details"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...
View full details"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...
View full details"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...
View full details"If you are scorched earth, I will be warm rain." - Murasaki Shikibu This lovely line is from Shikibu’s 11th century, profoundly influential work ...
View full details"Fate is a cunning hussy." - Elizabeth Gaskell An amusing zinger from an unfairly overlooked Victorian novelist. The fun passage (which defies t...
View full details"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?...
View full details"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...
View full details"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...
View full details"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...
View full details"Endless lively conversations over endless cups of coffee in literary cafés" - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Created in collaboration with Mr. Ferlinghett...
View full details"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...
View full details"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...
View full details"Solitude sometimes is best society." - John Milton From Paradise Lost, Book Nine. For solitude sometimes is best society,And short retirement urg...
View full details"Hell is empty, and all the devils are here." - William Shakespeare This line kicks off the second scene of The Tempest. Stunned by the fury of Pr...
View full details"Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat!" - William Shakespeare So I had my horns done. What do you think? Outrageously expensive, but worth it i...
View full details"I shall make it felony to drink small beer." - William Shakespeare If you want to enjoy yourself, you’ve got to go big or go home! Seriously, it...
View full details"I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw." - William Shakespeare Hamlet tosses this little mic-dro...
View full details"For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog." - William Shakespeare From Timon of Athens, the complete quotation is "For thy part, I do wish thou wer...
View full details"Fate is strong, but love is stronger." - Emily Brontë From her poem The Two Children. • 11x14 inch art print with white border • Premium, fine ...
View full details"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...
View full details"I know why the caged bird sings" - Paul Laurence Dunbar From his beloved poem,Sympathy, which he wrote in 1899 while working as a clerk at the Lib...
View full details"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...
View full details"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...
View full details"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...
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