{"title":"Soar High — Blake","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"soar-high-blake-heretics-t-shirt","title":"Soar High — William Blake Quote T-Shirt","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlake published “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” in 1793 while the French Revolution was still happening and the world was deciding what kind of creature the human being actually was.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWear the only permission you need — Blake's, written two centuries ago, still more useful than anything the self-help shelf has offered since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWilliam Blake\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlake wrote this in \u003cem\u003eThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell\u003c\/em\u003e, c. 1790 — a book of proverbs that upended every conventional wisdom it touched. This one is short, clean, and absolute: the only ceiling is borrowed power. Your own wings have no limit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's an invitation, not a boast. It doesn't say \u003cem\u003esoar high\u003c\/em\u003e. It says there is no \u003cem\u003etoo high\u003c\/em\u003e — provided the wings are yours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe word \u003cem\u003eSoars\u003c\/em\u003e sits higher on the chest than you'd expect — not centered, deliberately placed above the natural midpoint. It's a design choice that earns its meaning: the word itself demonstrates what the line describes. Typography as argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlake would have appreciated that. He designed, engraved, and printed his own books by hand. For him, the way a word sat on a page was never separate from what it said.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Tee\u003c\/h3\u003e\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\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It's For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis tee is for the person who stopped asking for permission. The one who already knows the difference between borrowed ambition and the real thing. Who has felt the difference in their chest between doing something because someone said to and doing it because it came from inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey don't need to be told to soar. They just need the reminder that the height is theirs to set.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYour wings. Your altitude.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe same line lives on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/soar-high-journal\"\u003eSoar High Journal\u003c\/a\u003e — for the writing that happens after the declaration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWilliam Blake, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1757–1827, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoet, painter, and printmaker — he created his books from scratch, writing, illustrating, and printing every page himself\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLargely unrecognized in his lifetime; now considered one of the most original voices in English literature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis line comes from \u003cem\u003eThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell\u003c\/em\u003e — a fierce, visionary work that turned conventional morality on its head\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlake's \"Proverbs of Hell\" were not dark — they were liberating. 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The \"Proverbs of Hell\" weren't satire. They were his actual position: that energy, excess, and the willingness to fall are the conditions of anything worth building.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWilliam Blake\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlake wrote this in \u003cem\u003eThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell\u003c\/em\u003e, c. 1790 — a book of proverbs designed to overturn every safe assumption it touched. This one lands differently on a journal than it does on a tee. On a tee, it's the declaration. In a journal, it's the practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWriting with your own voice — not the voice you think you should have, not the one you've borrowed from everyone who came before — is exactly what this line describes. Blake engraved and printed his own books by hand because no publisher would touch them. He built the thing himself. That's what your own wings look like.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/soar-high-tee\"\u003eThe Soar High Tee\u003c\/a\u003e carries the same line into the world. The journal is where you figure out what it means for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo warm burnished rules bracket SOARS on the cover — one above, one below — the word elevated out of the sentence and given its own space. The premise sits above the upper rule; the consequence sits below the lower one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlake didn't write about the act of flying — he wrote about the decision to try.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe design separates the risk from the reward with two thin lines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Journal\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\nSize — 5.5″ × 8.5″\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\nPages — 80 lined, cream-colored pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\nCover — hardcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\nClosure — built-in elastic band\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\nRibbon marker — sewn-in page keeper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\nInner pocket — expandable, fits loose notes and cards\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\nPrint — professionally printed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It's For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the writer who's still finding their voice. The thinker who fills notebooks not because they have answers but because writing is how they find them. The person who keeps coming back to Blake because something about the defiance feels exactly right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYour wings. Your ceiling. Your pages.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWilliam Blake, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBorn London, 1757. Died 1827. Never left England.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoet, painter, engraver — did all three simultaneously, often on the same page\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRejected the Age of Reason while everyone else was celebrating it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell\u003c\/em\u003e (c. 1790) — his most subversive work, written as a series of proverbs that inverted conventional morality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted and hand-colored his own books because publishers found him too strange\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLargely ignored in his lifetime. Now considered one of the most original minds in English literature\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42619205550174,"sku":"3126570_16952","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/hardcover-bound-notebook-black-front-6a3ef50ca051a.png?v=1782510869"},{"product_id":"soar-high-blake-literary-mug","title":"Soar High — William Blake Literary Mug","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlake wrote this in \u003cem\u003eThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell\u003c\/em\u003e around 1790, in a section titled \"Proverbs of Hell\" — not a list of sins but a set of arguments against every authority telling people what they were allowed to attempt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStart your morning with the only altitude limit Blake would accept — none, provided the wings are yours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWilliam Blake\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlake wrote this in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell around 1790 — a book so strange and visionary that his contemporaries mostly didn't know what to make of it. He was engraving his own plates, printing his own books, writing in a private mythology that took scholars generations to map. He didn't wait for permission. That was the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe line isn't about ambition in the ordinary sense. It's about the difference between borrowed momentum and your own. You can go as high as you're capable of going — the only limit is whether you're actually flying or just being carried.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo warm burnished rules bracket SOARS on both sides of the mug — one above, one below — the word isolated at the center of the design the way the thought is isolated at the center of the argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe quote wraps it. The instruction faces you whether you reach left or right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eYour Morning Lift\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: height 4.7\" (12 cm), diameter 3.35\" (8.5 cm)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e15 oz — substantial. Not a collection piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlossy black — quote shows clean on both sides\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo-sided print — the quote wraps the mug. Lefties see it. Righties see it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDishwasher safe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMicrowave safe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It's For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe one operating on their own terms. The person who stopped waiting for someone to tell them they were ready. Anyone who's learned the difference between being lifted up and actually flying.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSoar on your own.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWilliam Blake, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1757–1827, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoet, painter, and printmaker — he engraved, printed, and hand-colored his own books because no publisher would touch them\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLargely ignored in his lifetime; now considered one of the most original minds in English literary history\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell wasn't a religious text — it was a sustained argument against every authority that told people what they were allowed to think or become\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42642341396574,"sku":"5268127_9324","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/black-glossy-mug-black-15-oz-handle-on-right-6a3ef57eca353.png?v=1782510985"}],"url":"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/collections\/blake-soar-high.oembed","provider":"Quoteiac","version":"1.0","type":"link"}