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"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby • Pocket sized: 3.5 x ...

"Above all, don't lie to yourself." - Fyodor Dostoevsky From The Brothers Karamazov. This passage is so awesome, we included the entire excerpt i...

"I am no bird, and no net ensnares me." - Charlotte Brontë From her classic novel Jane Eyre. Inspired by the three muses of ancient Greece, the i...

"One who has a why can bear almost any how." - Nietzsche • Pocket sized: 3.5 x 5 inches • Proudly made in Portland Oregon • Offset printed with ve...

"Desiring truth, awaiting it, laboriosly distilling a few words, forever desiring - truth." - Virginia Woolf From her first short story collecti...

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde • Pocket sized: 3.5 x 5 inches • Proudly made in Portland Oreg...

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep." - Shakespeare The illustration, inspired by the magic of ...

"She was becoming herself, casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment." - Kate Chopin A woman slips off the words that onc...

"My candle burns at both ends;it will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh my friends -It gives a lovely light!" - Edna St. Vincent Millay T...

"Hope is the thing with feathers" - Emily Dickinson For this illustration, we used Emily Dickinson's own words as line elements to create the "th...

"And miles to go before I sleep" - Robert Frost From his classic poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. • Pocket sized: 3.5 x 5 inches • Prou...

"I am excessively diverted." - Jane Austen • Pocket sized: 3.5 x 5 inches • Proudly made in Portland Oregon • Offset printed with vegetable-based...

"Trade your cleverness for wonder." - Rumi As literature lovers, we’re the first to champion words that exquisitely describe the nature of things...

"Do I dare disturb the universe?" - T.S. Eliot A man is trapped in a universe as vast as his desires and as constrained as the expectations that ...

"It is not down in any map; true places never are." - Herman Melville Nothing reacquaints us with ourselves quite like travel. Here, we have a ma...

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Soren Kierkegaard This simple observation from Kierkegaard’s journals s...

"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity." - Sun Tzu From The Art of War, the Chinese military treatise dating back to the 5th century BC...

"When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter, do they?" - Virginia Woolf • Pocket sized: 3.5 x 5 inches • Proudly m...

"We live in the flicker." - Joseph Conrad A lightning bolt splits the night, leaving a lasting impression before it fades into darkness. • Pocket...

"Doubt is unpleasant, but certainty is absurd." - Voltaire • Pocket sized: 3.5 x 5 inches • Proudly made in Portland Oregon • Offset printed with...

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." - Edgar Allan Poe • Pocket sized: 3.5 x 5 inches • Proudly made in Portland Oregon • Of...

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep." - Robert Frost Frost’s most anthologized and beloved poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is decep...

"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter." - John Keats Keats pushes all the right buttons for us. The tension between imaginatio...

"Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson We're always recharged and awed by the stillness in the woods, and it r...

"Beauty will save the world." - Fyodor Dostoevsky Out of context, it would be easy to dismiss this quotation as hopelessly naive. But for Dostoev...

"To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield." - Lord Tennyson • Pocket sized: 3.5 x 5 inches • Proudly made in Portland Oregon • Offset printed ...

"My soul has grown deep like the rivers." - Langston Hughes The river may have carried him to unfamiliar places, but he’s not adrift. • Pocket si...

"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth on them." - Ida B. Wells • Pocket sized: 3.5 x 5 inches • Proudly made in Portland Oregon •...

"Exit pursued by a bear." - William Shakespeare "Exit, pursued by a bear" is a stage direction from Shakespeare’s "The Winter’s Tale" that is infa...

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

"It is dangerous to be right when the established authorities are wrong." - Voltaire "Il est dangereux d'avoir raison dans des choses où des ho...

"I went t o the woods because I wished to live deliberately." - Henry David Thoreau Frost’s most anthologized and beloved poem, “Stopping by Wood...

"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 i...

"Become a voice." - Sappho • Pocket sized: 3.5 x 5 inches • Proudly made in Portland Oregon • Offset printed with vegetable-based inks • Cover: 18...

"For we have thought the longer thoughts, and gone the shorter way." - Ernest Hemingway From his poem Chapter Heading. In his earlier work, Hemi...

"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 "...

"Be happy for this moment, this moment is your life." - Omar Khayyam This illustration depicts two warring ideas in the Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam ...

"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 resolved never to be conquered." - Harriet Jacobs It goes without saying that Harriet Jacobs was an extraordinary human being. From an illit...

"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again." - Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby I’ve thought about this quotation often ove...