Carpe Diem is a collection of classic works and poems on the most urgent theme in literature: Time is passing, and there are better uses for it than hesitation. Soaring poetry, powerful prose, and bold original illustrations that serve as a collective call to action. Horace wasn't urging recklessness, he was urging attention.
INCLUDED WRITERS
Horace, Khayyam, Tennyson, Dickinson, Yeats, Housman, Rumi, Wilde, Goethe, James, Conrad, Henley, Marvell, Marlowe, Millay, London, Hesse, Brontë, Gibran, Longfellow, Rilke, Baudelaire, Wordsworth, Frost, Keats and many more.
DETAILS
Obvious State is a creative studio and publisher founded by Nichole and Evan Robertson in 2011.
We make bold, illustrated editions and fine art drawn from the classics.
Our books and prints are available in our shop and in bookstores and boutiques nationwide.
Our work has been featured at The Folger Shakespeare Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The American Writers Museum, The Emily Dickinson Museum, The Library of Congress, The Getty Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art and more.
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Provocative visuals paired with punctuated language, full of surprising visual metaphors, subtext, and insider nudges that reveal themselves slowly.
Our pocket editions are portable art objects made to collect, share, and inspire moments of quiet reflection in an overstimulated digital world.
We’re drawn to language that has stood the test of time, insights that strike a chord, poetry that stretches the imagination, and philosophy that prompts critical thinking.
