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"Imagination is a good servant and a bad master." - Agatha Christie Spoken by that brilliant Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. A series of interl...

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

"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...

"The walls of my castle are broken, the shadows are many." - Bram Stoker, Dracula When Bram Stoker published gothic horror novel Dracula in 1897, ...

"Leaving for leaving's sake, Hearts light as balloons: Let's go!" - Charles Baudelaire, Le Voyage From his poem Le Voyage, this quotation beautifu...

"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...

"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...

"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...

"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...

"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...

"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, ...

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

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

"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 taste a liquor never brewed" - Emily Dickinson From Emily Dickinson's ecstatic poem on communing with nature. We used another line from the po...

"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...

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

"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 ...

"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...

"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...

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

"What am I doing here in this endless winter?" - Franz Kafka From his short, surrealist story, A Country Doctor. Although he died over a century a...