Illustrations to the poem Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti ~ 

Kinuko Craft

Arthur Rackham

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Emma Florence Harrison

Laurence Housman

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James McPartlin

Amelia Baeurle (Bowerly)

John Byam Liston Shaw

by ? (if anyone knows please inform me in comments)

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Visualisations of the writings of Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) by various artists

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Aubrey Beardsley : 1872 -1898

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Edmund Dulac

"There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. "
George Carlin  

"It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon? "
Algeron Blackwood 

Simeon Solomon

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to. 
Carl Sandberg 

"If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out." 
William Blake  

"I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon."
Muhammed Iqbal 

"The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow." 
Black Elk  

"But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not. "
Alan Bean

"Beware the Moon" from An American Werewolf in London

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_moon

"In ancient times cats were worshipped as Gods, they have not forgotten this." - Unknown

by Norman Lindsay

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha. - Andrew Lang

by Louis Wain

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of." - Sir Walter Scott

Artist Austin Osman Spare with his cats.

"If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat." - Mark Twain

by Lesley Ann Ivory

"It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see." - Eleanor Farjeon

Artist Edward Gorey with his cats

It is in their eyes that their magic resides.- Arthur Symons

by Wanda Wulz

To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.

- Erasmus Darwin

by Theophile Steinlen

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.- Desmond Morris

by John Tenniel

 Some creative cat-lovers - William Butler Yeats. Edgar Allan Poe. John Lennon. Charles Baudelaire. William S Burroughs. Ernest Hemingway. Charles Dickens. Victor Hugo. Mark Twain. Louis Wain. Ray Bradbury. Edward Gorey. Sir Walter Scott. Edward Lear. Austin Osman Spare. Louis Carroll. Renoir. HG Wells. Thomas Hardy. Frank Zappa. the Bronte sisters. Raymond Chandler. Jean Cocteau. TS Eliot. Matisse. Ravel. Gautier. HP Lovecraft. J.K. Huysmans.

by Aubrey Beardsley

Amidst his highly impressive oeuvre of illustrated books, the English artist Arthur Rackham has oft been noted for his depictions of charismatic and frequently sentient trees, yet the trees and forests of Britain that undoubtedly inspired him and numerous other artists and poets are under threat by the Government's proposals to sell the nation's woodlands.

A petition to protest about the potential environmental, social and aesthetic detriment that could occur from sales of the forests to unscrupulous individuals or corporations has been raised here http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/save-our-forests#petition

All Artwork by Arthur Rackham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rackham