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Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great, and would suffice.

Robert Frost, Fire and Ice

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago – never mind how long precisely — having little or no money in my purse and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.

Herman Melville, from Moby Dick, 18 x 24 inches, $210

Two road diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no foot had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I would ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh,
Somewhere age and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost, 18 x 24 inches, $240

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

Albert Einstein, 9 x 12 inches, $90

I certainly haven't been shopping for any new shoes and I certainly haven't been spreading myself around. I still only travel by foot and by foot it's a slow climb, but I'm good at being uncomfortable, so I can't stop changing all the time.

I notice that my opponent is always on the go and won’t go slow so's not to focus and I notice he'll hitch a ride with any guide, as long as they go fast from whence he came, but he's no good at being uncomfortable
so he can't stop staying exactly the same.

If there was a better way to go then it would find me. I can't help it, the road just rolls out behind me. Be kind to me, or treat me mean; I'll make the most of it — I'm an extraordinary machine.

Fiona Apple, 15 x 22 inches $245

Anon., 18 x 18 inches, $145

Miriam and the women danced and danced all night long.

Anon.

11 x 14 inches, SOLD

Study for a 5 by 8 foot canvas floor covering.

16 x 24 inches, $320

I will endeavor never to write more clearly than I think.

Niels Bohr, 13 x 8 inches, $80

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it turned in the undergrowth…

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost, from The Road Not Taken, 11 x 14 inches, $105

And in the end, the love you give is equal to the love you take.

Paul McCartney and John Lennon, 16 x 20 inches, $225