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Karene Jade Howie - Student of Philosophy and overworked shop keeper!Hello and welcome to the Philosophy Shop.

We really like philosophers and other creative thinkers of Human history - the Philosophy Shop represents several years work collecting over 500 quotes and portraits from many of the greatest minds of the past 3,000 years. Over the past 5 years the Philosophy Gift Shop has been one of the most popular shops at Cafepress - out of roughly 6 million shops! (Cafepress are a print on demand online shop and top 1000 website. They sell products world wide and have a full 30 day refund, making it a safe place to buy some very cool gifts for yourself and your friends.)

We hope you enjoy browsing our unique collection of photos & paintings with their eclectic mix of profound and engaging quotes.

Cheers!

PS - You are currently at the shop pages on our Philosophy website - Individual Product links go to our Philosophy Shop at Cafepress where you can purchase them.

Famous Poets & Poems: Metaphysical & Romantic Poetry Quotes

We have a unique gallery of Famous Poets portraits and metaphysical & romantic poetry quotes. Poets include: Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Moore, William Wordsworth, Johann Goethe, William Shakespeare.

We hope you find our selection interesting, inspiring and useful. Cheers!

Below you will find our Metaphysical & Romantic Poems & Poets Philosophy Shop Gallery. Please click on the picture to see the Fine Art Print and Quote printed on the following products;




Friedrich Nietzsche: Philosopher / Master of Prose
Friedrich Nietzsche: Philosopher / Master of Prose
'Was it not for you the glacier today exchanged its grey for roses? ...For you have I prepared my table ... who lives so near the stars as I, or who so near the depths of the abyss?'


Baudelaire French Poetry: Opium and Women
Baudelaire French Poetry: Opium and Women
'...an old and terrible friend, and, alas! like them all, full of caresses and deceptions.' (Baudelaire, comparing opium to women)


American Romantic Poets Edgar Allan Poe
American Romantic Poets Edgar Allan Poe
'Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. Its sole arbiter is Taste.'


English Romantic Poets: Percy Bysshe Shelley
English Romantic Poets: Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.'


The Masque of Anarchy: Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Masque of Anarchy: Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.'


Samuel Taylor Coleridge Metaphysics Poetry
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Metaphysics Poetry
'No one was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge ... (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772 - 1834)


Thomas Moore: Lyrics, Poetry and Eternal Life
Thomas Moore: Lyrics, Poetry and Eternal Life
'From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.'


Irish Poet Thomas Moore: Passage of Death
Irish Poet Thomas Moore: Passage of Death
'And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.'


William Wordsworth: Poetry Emotion Tranquillity
William Wordsworth: Poetry Emotion Tranquillity
'Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.'


English Romantic Movement: Wordsworth on Nature
English Romantic Movement: Wordsworth on Nature
'Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.'


Poet Goethe: Clear Thought / Noble soul
Poet Goethe: Clear Thought / Noble soul
'If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.'


Sonnets on Love & Beauty: Shakespeare's Juliet
Sonnets on Love & Beauty: Shakespeare's Juliet
shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date.' (Sonnet 18)


Poetry / Philosophy of Rome: Lucretius
Poetry / Philosophy of Rome: Lucretius
'The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.'

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