“Literature was born not the day when a boy crying wolf, wolf came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels: literature was born on the day when a boy came crying wolf, wolf and there was no wolf behind him… Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.”
– Vladimir Nabokov
Art by George Giguere.
“Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.”
– Vladimir Nabokov
Art by Annie Stegg.
“You are the only person I can talk with about the shade of a cloud, about the song of a thought…”
– Vladimir Nabokov‘s love letter to his wife Vera
Art by Carl Schweninger, Jr.
“I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another…”
– Vladimir Nabokov
Art by Viktor Mikailovich Vasnetsov.
Dandelion = a small wild plant with a bright yellow flower that becomes a soft white ball of seeds called a dandelion clock.
“Most of the dandelions had changed from suns into moons.”
–Vladimir Nabokov
Art by James R. Eads.
Go-between = someone who takes messages between people who are unable or unwilling to meet:
“Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.”
–Vladimir Nabokov
Art by Vincent Van Gogh.