"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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"Prudence allows too little room for the mysterious whisperings of life." - Margaret Fuller This was Fuller's advice to Emerson on living a little...
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"And the Spring would come again! Oh, it would come again!" - Willa Cather From her novel O Pioneers! The illustration depicts several themes from...
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"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...
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"Now the white prairie was sky, and the stars lay under my feet." - Zitkala-Ša From her short story collection American Indian Stories, publish...
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"Love is so short, forgetting is so long." - Pablo Neruda From Neruda's collection Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada, an emotional ...
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"The walls of my castle are broken, the shadows are many." - Bram Stoker, Dracula When Bram Stoker published gothic horror novel Dracula in 1897, ...
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" 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...
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"Yes I do, darling, I love you." - Zora Neale Hurston We discovered this disarmingly simple, yet powerful quotation while reading one of Ms. Hurst...
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"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...
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"Leaving for leaving's sake, Hearts light as balloons: Let's go!" - Charles Baudelaire, Le Voyage From his poem Le Voyage, this quotation beautifu...
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"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...
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"Whirl up, sea—whirl your pointed pines,splash your great pineson our rocks,hurl your green over us,cover us with your pools of fir." - H.D. ...
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"'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days" - Omar Khayyám Composed in the eleventh century, and translated into English in 1859, The Rubáiyát...
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"Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work." - Gustave Flaubert What. Did you think you could muck...
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"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...
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"If I were a bird, I would fly about the earth seeking successive autumns." - George Eliot Autumn is here, and this quotation captures our season...
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"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....
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"Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance." - William Shakespeare This knee-slapper is spoken by conman/rogue/all-around-ne'e...
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"And now - unwittingly you've made me dream of violets" - Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson From her poem Sonnet, written in 1922. Poet, essayist, diarist...
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"Silent but for one Voice that speaks its mighty travail." - Thomas Wolfe A cityscape casts a shadow of trees, marrying the aspirations of nature ...
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"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...
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"We are all in paradise but refuse to see it." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky in 1879: Survives Russian winters and four ...
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"Night is a room darkened for lovers." - William Carlos Williams From his poem, Complaint. We love this sensual metaphor. In the illustration, we...
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