{"title":"The Grain of Sand — Blake","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"grain-of-sand-blake-heretics-t-shirt","title":"Grain of Sand — Blake Heretics T-Shirt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“To see a World in a Grain of Sand \/ And a Heaven in a Wild Flower \/ Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand \/ And Eternity in an hour”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e— William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence,” c. 1803. From the Pickering Manuscript; first published 1863.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam Blake wrote “Auguries of Innocence” around 1803. It opens with the four lines everyone quotes, then runs on for 128 more — couplets of moral paradox that almost never travel with the opening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poem is 132 lines; this quatrain is the part that survived on its own. It compresses a single argument — that scale is a matter of attention, that the very small and the very large can be the same thing seen from different distances. There’s no punctuation in the manuscript, so the four images run straight into one another. It survives in a single manuscript and didn’t reach print until 1863, decades after his death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe quote runs on the back — all four lines, no punctuation, the capitalized nouns (World, Grain, Sand, Heaven, Wild Flower, Infinity, Eternity) carrying the weight Blake gave them, with the attribution beneath. The front is clean; the statement rides behind you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/grain-of-sand-blake-heretics-mug\"\u003eGrain of Sand Mug\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/grain-of-sand-blake-journal\"\u003eGrain of Sand Journal\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/grain-of-sand-blake-heretics-tumbler\"\u003eGrain of Sand Tumbler\u003c\/a\u003e. More Blake: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/soar-high-blake-heretics-t-shirt\"\u003eSoar High Tee\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/soar-high-blake-literary-mug\"\u003eSoar High Mug\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/soar-high-blake-heretics-journal\"\u003eSoar High Journal\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Tee\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e100% combed and ring-spun cotton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFabric weight: 4.2 oz\/yd² (142 g\/m²)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRetail fit, true to size\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSide-seamed construction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMachine washable, cold water\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuoteiac logo on the left sleeve\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It’s For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe person who finds the infinite in the specific — who stops on a walk for something most people step over, who knows the size of a thing has nothing to do with its significance. The reader who already knew this and has been waiting for someone to say it on a shirt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEverything you need is in the grain. Wear that.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWilliam Blake, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived 1757–1827, in and around London — and never left England\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrained as an engraver; printed and illustrated his own illuminated books by hand, crediting the technique to a vision of his late brother, Robert\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWrote “Auguries of Innocence” around 1803; it survives in a single manuscript and didn’t reach print until 1863\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne of the foundational figures of Romantic poetry; later read closely by writers from T. S. Eliot to Allen Ginsberg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSize Chart (Bella + Canvas)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eSize\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eWidth (in)\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eLength (in)\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eXS\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.5\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e27\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eS\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e18\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e28\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eM\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e20\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e29\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eL\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e22\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e30\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eXL\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e24\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e31\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e2XL\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e26\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e32\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"XS","offer_id":42645005992030,"sku":"1379823_21593","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"S","offer_id":42645006024798,"sku":"1379823_21594","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":42645006057566,"sku":"1379823_21595","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":42645006090334,"sku":"1379823_21596","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":42645006123102,"sku":"1379823_21597","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2XL","offer_id":42645006155870,"sku":"1379823_21598","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/Grain_of_Sand_Blake_Heretics_TShirt_back.png?v=1782506555"},{"product_id":"grain-of-sand-blake-heretics-mug","title":"Grain of Sand — Blake Heretics Mug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“To see a World in a Grain of Sand \/ And a Heaven in a Wild Flower \/ Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand \/ And Eternity in an hour”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e— William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence,” c. 1803. From the Pickering Manuscript; first published 1863.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a boy, William Blake saw a tree filled with angels — and reported it plainly. He kept seeing things, and saying so, his whole life. By the time he wrote “Auguries of Innocence” around 1803, he had been engraving his own plates and hand-printing his own books for years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStart the morning with one of the most ambitious perceptual claims in English poetry — finding the whole world in a grain of sand, before the second cup. “Auguries of Innocence” runs another 128 lines past the opening — couplets of moral paradox, warning, and observation. What travels is the quatrain: it doesn’t argue or moralize, it just asks whether you’re willing to look that closely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe quatrain prints on the mug — four lines, no punctuation, the capitalized nouns (World, Sand, Heaven, Wild Flower, Infinity, Eternity) carrying the weight they hold in the manuscript. The same design sits on both sides, so the quote faces you whichever hand you reach with.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/grain-of-sand-blake-heretics-t-shirt\"\u003eGrain of Sand Tee\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/grain-of-sand-blake-journal\"\u003eGrain of Sand Journal\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/grain-of-sand-blake-heretics-tumbler\"\u003eGrain of Sand Tumbler\u003c\/a\u003e. More Blake: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/soar-high-blake-literary-mug\"\u003eSoar High Mug\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eYour Morning Augury\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e15 oz — substantial. Not a collection piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlossy black finish\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo-sided print — same design both sides. Lefties see it. Righties see it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHand wash highly recommended\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It’s For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe person who starts the morning slowly, on purpose. The one who looks closely at things. Anyone who has ever held something small and felt it open rather than close.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHold the hour. Hold the infinity in it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWilliam Blake, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived 1757–1827, in and around London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSaw visions from childhood — a tree of angels as a boy, among others — and never disowned them\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDesigned, engraved, printed, and colored his own books by hand, crediting the method to a vision of his late brother, Robert\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Auguries of Innocence” runs 132 lines; this opening quatrain is the part that escaped the rest and became the poem most people mean by “Blake”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorked nearly to his last day in 1827 on illustrations for Dante’s “Divine Comedy”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42645008875614,"sku":"4294355_9324","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/Grain_of_Sand_Blake_Heretics_Mug_front.png?v=1782506436"},{"product_id":"grain-of-sand-blake-heretics-tumbler","title":"Grain of Sand — Blake Heretics Tumbler","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“To see a World in a Grain of Sand \/ And a Heaven in a Wild Flower \/ Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand \/ And Eternity in an hour”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e— William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence,” c. 1803. From the Pickering Manuscript; first published 1863.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA tumbler goes where you go — desk, commute, everywhere in between. Blake’s grain-of-sand quatrain makes a fitting companion: four lines he wrote around 1803, in a manuscript that stayed unpublished until decades after his death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poem makes a claim about scale: that the distance between a grain of sand and a world, an hour and eternity, is a question of attention rather than measurement. The opening four lines compress that whole argument into the smallest possible space — fitting, given the subject. A tumbler does something similar: small enough to hold all day, holding more than it looks like it should.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe four lines print vertically down the body of the tumbler — no punctuation, capitalized nouns, the quatrain running the length the way a long thought does. Something small carrying something large.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/grain-of-sand-blake-heretics-t-shirt\"\u003eGrain of Sand Tee\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/grain-of-sand-blake-heretics-mug\"\u003eGrain of Sand Mug\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/grain-of-sand-blake-journal\"\u003eGrain of Sand Journal\u003c\/a\u003e. More Blake: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/soar-high-blake-heretics-t-shirt\"\u003eSoar High Tee\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Tumbler\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e20 oz stainless steel — stays cold all day, hot all morning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMatte black finish — the poem reads clean against it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLid and metal straw included\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHand wash highly recommended — not dishwasher or microwave safe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It’s For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe person who carries the big ideas in small containers. The one who travels with intention. Anyone who has ever looked at something the size of a grain of sand and felt it open.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHold infinity. Keep it cold.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWilliam Blake, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived 1757–1827, in and around London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA printer, painter, and poet who treated all three as one practice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAldous Huxley took the title “The Doors of Perception” from Blake’s “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”; Jim Morrison named his band after Huxley’s book\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Auguries of Innocence” runs 132 lines — the opening quatrain is what’s remembered; the 128 couplets that follow are rarely quoted\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecovered in the 1860s; the full poem first reached print in 1863\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42645010808926,"sku":"3946185_15004","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/Blake_Grains_of_Sand_Quote_stainless-steel-tumbler.png?v=1782447950"},{"product_id":"grain-of-sand-blake-journal","title":"Grain of Sand — Blake Journal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“To see a World in a Grain of Sand \/ And a Heaven in a Wild Flower \/ Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand \/ And Eternity in an hour”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e— William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence,” c. 1803. From the Pickering Manuscript; first published 1863.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy trade, William Blake was an engraver — hired, exacting, repetitive work. On his own time he wrote and illustrated poems arguing that the whole world could be read in a single grain of sand. “Auguries of Innocence” is one of them, written around 1803 and never published in his lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlake kept this poem in a manuscript for years; it didn’t reach print until 1863, decades after his death. A journal with the quatrain on the cover is built for the same kind of work — close attention to small things, the practice of looking until the small turns out to be large.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe full quatrain on a black hardcover — four lines, no punctuation, each major noun capitalized the way Blake wrote them: World, Sand, Heaven, Wild Flower, Infinity, Eternity. The attribution sits beneath in italic. The poem is the cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/grain-of-sand-blake-heretics-t-shirt\"\u003eGrain of Sand Tee\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/grain-of-sand-blake-heretics-mug\"\u003eGrain of Sand Mug\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/grain-of-sand-blake-heretics-tumbler\"\u003eGrain of Sand Tumbler\u003c\/a\u003e. More Blake: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/soar-high-blake-heretics-journal\"\u003eSoar High Journal\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Journal\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5.5″ × 8.5″ hardcover — 120 lined pages, acid-free paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElastic band closure, ribbon bookmark, lay-flat binding\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It’s For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe writer who finds the big things in the small ones. The keeper of close observations. The person who understands that a notebook is where infinity starts — one sentence at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOpen it. Look closely. Write what you see.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWilliam Blake, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived 1757–1827, in and around London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWrote and hand-produced his own illuminated books — designing, engraving, printing, and coloring each one himself\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCredited the relief-etching method he used to a vision of his late brother, Robert\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHis wife, Catherine, learned to read and print to work alongside him; she assisted with his books for decades\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Auguries of Innocence” runs 132 lines — the opening quatrain is the part that’s remembered; the 128 lines of couplets that follow are rarely quoted\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLargely overlooked in his lifetime; recovered in the 1860s and now among the most-quoted poets in English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42645016739934,"sku":"8744311_16952","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/Grain_of_Sand_Blake_Journal_front.png?v=1782506686"}],"url":"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/collections\/blake-auguries.oembed","provider":"Quoteiac","version":"1.0","type":"link"}