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Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912) was born in Michigan and schooled in Sarnia, Ontario. She was a poet, an anarchist, and an early feminist.

Emily Dickinson: Reclusive 19th-century American poet known for her innovative style, exploring themes of nature, death, and immortality. Her concise yet profound verses have left an indelible mark on modern poetry.

maya angelou but still i rise

Stephen Crane's war novel, The Red Badge of Courage shows a photograph of fallen soldiers on an American Civil War battlefield, an example of the terrible cost of war. The text is an example of Stephen Crane's use of "stream of consciousness" narrative style.

David Foster Wallace Novelist Cruise Voyage

This Vintage Retro Dark Academia Edgar Allen Poe portrait was created by AI Art Originals, generated by Midjourney. An inspirational gift for macabre poets, bookworms, and American literature lovers.

Edgar Allan Poe: “I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”

"I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”

My Antonia Willa Carter Book Cover

T.S. Eliot portrait and quote: Do I dare disturb the universe?

Ernest Hemingway quote: The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway quote: “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

With this image, we celebrate Dashiell Hammett, the father of a hard-boiled detective novel.

With this image, we celebrate American writer Ralph Ellison, the author of Invisible Man.

Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912) was born in Michigan and schooled in Sarnia, Ontario. She was a poet, an anarchist, and an early feminist.

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E. E. Cummings: It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Whimsical Raven painted with watercolor and pastels featuring an Edgar Alan Poe quote

Mark Twain quote: I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

A tired old truck and a quote from Steinbeck's stark novel of the 1930's American Great Depression.

Edith Wharton portrait and quote:'If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.'

Helen Keller portrait and quote: What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Alien and Mark Twain quote: Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

"You Never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." Atticus Finch. By Nelle Harper Lee. Chap 3. Embellished with yellow spring flowers. Using bright green and red ink.

"That’s what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism. But you shouldn’t worry — poetry is still first. Cigarettes and alcohol follow” - Anne Sexton

Vintage cover design of Lovecraft's famous novel At The Mountains of Madness

Show your love for Southern women writers and classic literature in this Zora & Eudora & Harper & Flannery tee ;)

Ernest Hemingway quote about war: Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Ernest Hemingway quote: As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

Mark Twain quote: Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination

Edgar Allan Poe portrait and quote: "Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see."

Ernest Hemingway quote about writing: My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Famed Southern writer, William Faulkner, once said, "If the story is in you, it has to come out." White, Transparent background

Poe’s The Tell Tale Heart shows the heart buried beneath the floor and the old man’s blue eye that drove a madman to murder.

Bukowski quote about poetry