RISD
Literary Arts
and Studies

“There’s never a new fashion but it’s old” — Geoffrey Chaucer

“Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original” — Judith Butler

“Here form is content, content is form.” — Samuel Beckett, “Dante … Bruno. Vico … Joyce” (1929)

“I always get what I want. But then I don’t want it anymore” –Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.” Aime Cesaire

“from its banks can be seen the snow-capped Cloud Peak rising grandly from its surrounding hills….”

I could take the Harlem night
and wrap around you — Langston Hughes, “Juke Box Love Song”