HYMN TO INTELLECTUAL BEAUTYPercy Shelley Illustration from our limited edition chapbook, On Autumn. The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from...
“Beauty will save the world” - Dostoevsky Out of context, it's easy to dismiss this quotation as hopelessly naive or optimistic. But it’s complicated. For Dostoevsky, (at least as we see it) "beauty” transcends aesthetics, and is what inspires the...
"Their lips brushed like wild flowers in the wind." - F. Scott Fitzgerald This quote, suggested by Kerri of @myoutfitmatchesmybook, comes from Fitzgerald’s early novel This Side of Paradise. The line serves as a great summary of the novel which...
I’ve always loved this quote from the final act of Hamlet, and this passage was recently suggested to us by Anila Arshad-Mehmood (@akneela). In the scene, Horatio begs Hamlet to make up an excuse not to duel with Laertes, if he...
"Exit, pursued by a bear" is a stage direction from Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale that is infamous for its hilarity and difficulty to stage. It's one of the best literary inside jokes (welcome to the club!) and it's a fun line...
Inspiration for our Dostoevsky illustration is from the Biographical Notes section of "The Brothers Karamazov." It's a wonderful passage that stands on its own as a poignant piece of literature. "Notes of the Life of the deceased Priest and Monk,...
