{"title":"Objects — Things to live with.","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThings to live with.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe words don't only belong on a shirt. They belong on the mug at your desk, the journal in your bag, the phone case in your hand, the tumbler beside your books. Objects is where Quoteiac steps off the body and into the room — same typography, same earned restraint, different surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003ePhone cases. Mugs. Tumblers. Journals. 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The circle at the base is what it always was: weight, not punctuation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAttribution runs vertically along the axis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe design is built around the same commitment the quote is built around.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Tumbler\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStainless steel, 20oz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDouble-wall vacuum insulation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKeeps drinks cold 24hrs, hot 12hrs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It's For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShow up before you're asked\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHold yourself to a higher standard than you hold anyone else\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNeed the reminder daily, not just when it's convenient\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarry this one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eMahatma Gandhi, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1869–1948, Gujarat, India — lawyer, independence leader, and the primary architect of nonviolent resistance as a political strategy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLed the Indian National Congress and the movement that ended British colonial rule in 1947\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHis method — \u003cem\u003esatyagraha\u003c\/em\u003e, or truth-force — influenced Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and the global civil rights tradition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn 1913, he wrote to a colleague: \"If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change.\" The famous paraphrase came decades later — close enough to be his, different enough to remain disputed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAssassinated in January 1948, seven months after Indian independence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCarry your conviction.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40275835912286,"sku":"7226377_15004","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/Be_The_Change_Insulated_Tumbler.png?v=1775256761"},{"product_id":"be-the-change-gandhi-philosophy-journal","title":"Be The Change — Gandhi Philosophy Journal","description":"\u003cp\u003eGandhi never wrote the exact words \"Be the change you wish to see in the world.\" What he did write, in 1913, was a letter arguing that behavior is more persuasive than argument — that the only reliable way to change a situation is to embody the change yourself. The paraphrase arrived decades later and stuck because the idea was already true.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe kind of thinking that changes things starts here — in your hands, on the page, in the gap between what is and what you're willing to write down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWidely attributed to Mahatma Gandhi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Be the change you wish to see in the world.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn the Attribution\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo one can prove Gandhi said this. Scholars have traced the phrasing to a Brooklyn schoolteacher named Arleen Lorrance, writing in 1974. What Gandhi did write — in 1913 — was this: \u003cem\u003e\"If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. We need not wait to see what others do.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClose enough that his family insists it was his. 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The cover earns those dots the way the quote earns its conclusion: through everything that comes before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWrite what worries you. Seneca did the same, and it helped.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Journal\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\nCover: hardcover — durable, easy to clean, substantial in hand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\nSize: 5.5\" × 8.5\" — the right scale for real thinking\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n80 pages of lined, cream-colored paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\nElastic closure and ribbon page marker included\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\nExpandable inner pocket for loose notes, receipts, anything worth keeping\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It's For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe person who processes by writing. The one who needs to get it out of their head and onto a page where it can be examined rather than just felt. Someone who already suspects that naming the thing is half the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe imagination is the cruelest room. 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The quote runs in consistent large serif type, and the attribution follows in smaller amber below.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWells didn't build to the claim; he opened with it. The design agrees.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eYour Morning Reckoning\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\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 person whose morning needs more than caffeine. A traveler, a reader, someone who thinks about where we’re all headed. An unexpected but exactly right gift for the person who has opinions about H.G. 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Wells, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEnglish author and historian (1866–1946)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWrote \u003cem\u003eThe Time Machine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe War of the Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Invisible Man\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Outline of History\u003c\/em\u003e (1920) — humanity’s story as one continuous narrative, sold over two million copies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpent his career arguing that the species needed to think at the species level, or it wouldn’t survive\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA futurist who was right about more things than was comfortable\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42640730882142,"sku":"8986391_9324","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/We_Are_Mankind_Mug_H.G._Wells.png?v=1775958671"},{"product_id":"the-ideas-curie-curious-mind-journal","title":"The Ideas — Curie Curious Mind Journal","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe line is attributed to Curie, but the original source hasn't been definitively located — what's clear is that it reflects the position she held and acted on throughout her career. 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No hedging, no flourish — just a direction, repeated every morning until it became a life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStart your morning with Curie's daily reorientation — away from the noise, toward whatever is worth understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMarie Curie\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA note on attribution: This quote is widely associated with Curie and recorded in Eve Curie’s 1937 biography of her mother. It is not drawn from Curie’s own published scientific writing. We include it in that biographical spirit — as a sentiment she lived, even if the exact words were recorded by another.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCurie said this to a world that was endlessly curious about her — her gender, her nationality, her private life. 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Wilde's sentence doesn't need one word enlarged over the others because it's the structure of the whole thing that lands. The pause before \u003cem\u003eexcept genius\u003c\/em\u003e is already in the grammar. The mug just holds it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlso in the Oscar Wilde collection: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-genius-exception-wilde-literary-t-shirt\"\u003eThe Genius Exception Tee\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-last-refuge-wilde-literary-t-shirt\"\u003eThe Last Refuge Tee\u003c\/a\u003e. Browse the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/collections\/oscar-wilde\"\u003efull Oscar Wilde collection\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eYour Morning Exception\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\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 exception lands whether you're left-handed or right. Wilde didn't pick sides either.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEm dash preserved exactly as Wilde wrote it — the pause is part of the sentence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDishwasher safe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLead and BPA-free\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eMicrowave safe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It's For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe one who starts the day knowing the odds and goes anyway. The person who's been called too much by people who were too little. 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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\/Soar_High_Mug_William_Blake.png?v=1776121373"},{"product_id":"misunderstood-emerson-literary-journal","title":"Misunderstood — Emerson Literary Journal","description":"\u003cp\u003eEmerson delivered \"Self-Reliance\" as a lecture before it was an essay — testing ideas in front of audiences who had already been unsettled by his earlier work. \"To be great is to be misunderstood\" wasn't comfort. 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The point wasn’t frugality. It was the calculation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHenry David Thoreau\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it…”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe wrote that in \u003cem\u003eWalden\u003c\/em\u003e — in the chapter called “Economy,” which is exactly what it sounds like. Not inspiration. An audit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThoreau kept meticulous journals — 14 volumes, nearly two million words over his lifetime. He wrote in them daily, tracking observations, costs, ideas, the exact depth of Walden Pond on different days. The journals weren’t a record of what he thought. They were where he figured out what he thought. \u003cem\u003eWalden\u003c\/em\u003e was distilled from them over nearly a decade of revision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe quote on the cover is from “Economy” — his accounting of what things actually cost in units of life. Writing is its own version of that audit. You find out what something is worth to you by how much of yourself you’re willing to spend working it out on the page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead the full story behind this quote: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/blogs\/journal\/the-soul-becomes-dyed-what-marcus-aurelius-and-thoreau-actually-said\"\u003eThe Soul Becomes Dyed: What Marcus Aurelius and Thoreau Actually Said\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso in the Henry David Thoreau collection: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/cost-of-living-thoreau-walden-t-shirt\"\u003eCost of Living Tee\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/awake-thoreau-walden-t-shirt\"\u003eAWAKE. Tee\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/touchstones-thoreau-walden-t-shirt\"\u003eTouchstones Tee\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/touchstones-thoreau-walden-mug\"\u003eTouchstones Mug\u003c\/a\u003e. Browse the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/collections\/thoreau\"\u003efull Thoreau collection\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe quote runs across the cover in five lines — clean serif type, no ornament. Source attribution sits below: \u003cem\u003eWalden\u003c\/em\u003e, “Economy,” 1854. The ellipsis is Thoreau’s: the sentence trails open on purpose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Journal\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHardcover bound journal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e80 lined, cream-colored pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSize: 5.5” × 8.5”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuilt-in elastic closure\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRibbon page marker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExpandable inner pocket\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It’s For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe one who works things out by writing them down. The person who journals because thinking on the page is more honest than thinking in their head. Anyone who understands that the act of writing is itself a form of accounting — for time, for attention, for what matters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWrite what it’s worth.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHenry David Thoreau, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1817–1862, Concord, Massachusetts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpent two years and two months in a self-built cabin at Walden Pond — then spent the rest of his life writing about what he learned there\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eWalden\u003c\/em\u003e’s opening chapter, “Economy,” is a detailed audit of what things actually cost in units of life exchanged — one of the most precise pieces of American prose ever written\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDied at 44 of tuberculosis; his last documented words were “moose” and “Indians,” which is exactly on brand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42644092813406,"sku":"9874375_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-6a28d2514cc3a.png?v=1781060185"},{"product_id":"the-unbegun-rossetti-journal","title":"The Unbegun — Rossetti Journal","description":"\u003cp\u003eRossetti wrote \"Tempus Fugit\" in 1885, while managing Graves' disease and caring for her aging mother. She had been ill, in one form or another, for most of her adult life. The line isn't resignation — it's a practiced instruction from someone who had learned exactly how much a beginning costs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChristina Rossetti, Time Flies (1885)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes: work never begun.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRossetti was 55 when she wrote this — old enough to know what unfinished cost, and old enough to know what never beginning cost more. A journal with this on the cover is a dare. It sits on your desk. It waits. It has already asked the question. The only thing left is your answer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you've ever:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOpened a blank page and closed it again without writing a word\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSaved a draft you never came back to\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKnown exactly what you wanted to make and still not made it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the journal that calls that out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWriting isn't just recording — it's thinking with your hands. The ideas that stay in your head stay unfinished. The ones you put down at least have a chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe question and the answer sit on a black hardcover — the quote doing all the work, nothing to soften it. It asks before you open it. The answer is your first page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-unbegun-tee\"\u003eThe Unbegun Tee\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-unbegun-mug\"\u003eThe Unbegun Mug\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Journal\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n5.5″ × 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 person with more ideas than pages. The writer who keeps meaning to start. The one who already knows what Rossetti meant and has been thinking about it ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOpen it. Write the first line. That's all she's asking.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eChristina Rossetti, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1830–1894, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished six collections and multiple prose works during her lifetime — an unusually productive output for a Victorian woman writer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKept notebooks of drafts and revised for years before releasing work — known for discipline as much as feeling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eTime Flies\u003c\/em\u003e was written in her 50s, while she was ill; the productivity never stopped\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHer work fell out of fashion after her death and was revived significantly in the mid-20th century\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42644787822686,"sku":"4208717_16952","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/The_Unbegun_Journal_Christina_Rossetti.png?v=1776201432"},{"product_id":"the-unbegun-rossetti-dark-romanticism-mug","title":"The Unbegun — Rossetti Dark Romanticism Mug","description":"\u003cp\u003eRossetti published \"Amor Mundi\" in 1865. The sharpest thing in it isn't a warning about love — it's a single distinction between what's unfinished and what was never started.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStart your morning with the only question worth answering today — Rossetti's argument that unfinished work is sad, but unstarted work is the real loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChristina Rossetti, Time Flies (1885)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes: work never begun.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRossetti wrote this in her 50s, working through illness, having already published more than most writers manage in a full career. She understood the arithmetic of creative life: unfinished is survivable. Never begun is the one you can't recover from.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the mug you drink from before you open the file. The question lands first. The answer lands harder. Both sides carry the full line — lefties see it, righties see it. The judgment doesn't pick sides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLift it and the question faces you from the left. Turn it to drink and the answer comes around — the full stop landing just before the first sip. What you carry isn't answered until you move.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eYour Morning Verdict\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe question sits at the top, the answer beneath — the weight arrives in the right order, every time\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 person who needs the question answered before the day starts. The maker who keeps the plan warm but not moving. The one who knows exactly what Rossetti meant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe coffee is just the beginning. Start the thing.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eChristina Rossetti, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1830–1894, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHer brother was Dante Gabriel Rossetti — she modeled for his paintings and co-edited the Pre-Raphaelite journal \u003cem\u003eThe Germ\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWrote more than 1,000 poems; spent her later years as caregiver to her mother and aunts while managing chronic illness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis quote from \u003cem\u003eTime Flies\u003c\/em\u003e is the kind of line written by someone who understood exactly how much time had passed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDied at 64, having written to the end\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42644791263326,"sku":"7931791_9324","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/The_Unbegun_Mug_Christina_Rossetti.png?v=1776202676"},{"product_id":"the-silence-rossetti-dark-romanticism-mug","title":"The Silence — Rossetti Dark Romanticism Mug","description":"\u003cp\u003eRossetti buried the loudest line inside the quietest word — and \"Remember\" has been arriving before the noise does ever since. Every morning, before the day takes over, the silence is already there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStart your morning in the pause before the noise — the space Rossetti identified as the most musical of all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChristina Rossetti, \"Rest,\" 1862\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Silence more musical than any song.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRossetti was 18 when she wrote this, and already making an argument that holds. Silence isn't the absence of music — it's what music is trying to get back to. This is the mug for the morning before the noise starts. The first few minutes with coffee, before the phone, before the day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSILENCE in bold — one word, unavoidable — then the rest of the quote in a quieter weight beneath it. Wrapped across both sides of the mug so it doesn't matter which hand holds it. The attribution sits below the quote in smaller type. Everything after SILENCE is quieter by design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eYour Morning Silence\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\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 person who takes the first hour seriously. The one who needs quiet before the world gets loud. The introvert who has always known this and didn't need Rossetti to tell them — but is glad she said it anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHold it. Be still. Let the quiet be enough.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eChristina Rossetti, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1830–1894, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne of the most formally skilled poets of the Victorian era — worked in sonnets, ballads, devotional verse, and prose meditation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe poem \"Rest\" was published in 1862; the line \"Silence more musical than any song\" has been quoted and set to music for over 160 years\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHer letters reveal someone deeply engaged with the world she chose not to enter physically\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eComplete Poems\u003c\/em\u003e was published posthumously in 1904 and is still in print\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42644908933214,"sku":"9515450_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-6a1f470d610f5.png?v=1780434711"},{"product_id":"the-silence-rossetti-dark-romanticism-journal","title":"The Silence — Rossetti Dark Romanticism Journal","description":"\u003cp\u003eRossetti published “Rest” in 1862. The poem is about wanting silence so complete it becomes its own music. This journal holds the thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChristina Rossetti, \"Rest\" (1849)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Silence is more musical than any song.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRossetti wrote \"Rest\" at 18, and it's still the best argument for quiet anyone has put in a single line. A journal with this on the cover is for the kind of writing that happens in silence — not in noise, not in distraction, but in the ten minutes before the rest of the house wakes up, or the hour after everyone has gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you've ever:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHad your best ideas in the shower, on a walk, or anywhere a screen wasn't\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKept a journal specifically because it was the one place no one else could see the thought forming\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWritten a sentence in silence that you couldn't have written with music on\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is for that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSILENCE is the first thing on the cover and the last thing you read before you open it. Writing isn't just recording — it's the quiet act of making something out of the space in your head before it becomes noise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePick it up and the cover gives you one word before anything else: SILENCE, set large against black, the full sentence arriving beneath in a quieter weight. In your hands it feels like what it says — the heaviest thing on the page is what isn’t there.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-silence-tee\"\u003eThe Silence Tee\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-silence-mug\"\u003eThe Silence Mug\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Journal\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n5.5″ × 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 thinker who needs the room quiet before the thoughts arrive. The writer who already knows silence is where it starts. Anyone who has ever turned off the music to write.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOpen it in the quiet. Keep it there.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eChristina Rossetti, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1830–1894, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished her first poems at 17 in a small private edition her grandfather printed; never stopped publishing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe paradox in \"Silence is more musical than any song\" is her method, not her exception — she built her career on lines that resist paraphrase\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeclined two marriage proposals on grounds of faith — once to a Pre-Raphaelite painter, once to a linguist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWrote more than 1,000 poems; only a fraction appeared during her lifetime\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42644912570462,"sku":"5970439_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-6a1f464eec7ac.png?v=1780434519"},{"product_id":"the-alone-poe-the-raven-mug","title":"The Alone — Poe The Raven Mug","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoe wrote \"Alone\" at fifteen, in a poem he never tried to publish. Every morning it asks the same question.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEdgar Allan Poe, \"Alone\" (written c. 1829, published 1875)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe design reads \"lov'd\" — not \"loved.\" That's not a typo. It's what Poe actually wrote in 1829, reproduced in facsimile in Scribner's Monthly in 1875, and preserved by the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore as the historical text. Modern editors modernized the spelling. We didn't.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"And all I lov'd—I lov'd alone—\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoe wrote this at 20 and kept it to himself for the rest of his life. It's the most nakedly personal thing he ever wrote — a description of a way of experiencing the world that couldn't be shared because it was, at its core, solitary. 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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 person who needs ten minutes alone before the day starts. The Poe reader who has carried this line for years. The one who knows the specific quality of loving something alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTake the morning. Take it on your own terms.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eEdgar Allan Poe, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1809–1849\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInvented the detective fiction genre with \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue\" (1841) — decades before Sherlock Holmes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMore celebrated in France than in America during his own lifetime — Baudelaire translated him, Dostoevsky and Borges claimed him\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Raven\u003c\/em\u003e (1845) made him famous and earned him almost nothing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Alone\" was kept in someone else's album for 26 years before the world saw it — the most intimate thing he ever wrote, hidden the longest\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42644958773342,"sku":"5821139_9324","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/The_Alone_Mug_Edgar_Allan_Poe.png?v=1776205648"},{"product_id":"the-alone-poe-dark-romanticism-journal","title":"The Alone — Poe Dark Romanticism Journal","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoe wrote “Alone” at fifteen. 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The writing that happens before the world sees it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you've ever:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWritten something true that you immediately knew you'd never show anyone\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKept a journal because the version of you that exists there is more honest than the other versions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWritten in the dark, or early, or late — whenever the real thoughts come\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is for that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWriting isn't just recording — it's the act of making the private thing real before it dissolves. Poe didn't show this poem to anyone. But he wrote it. The writing was the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe staircase layout on a black hardcover — \"And all I lov'd—\" \/ \"I lov'd\" \/ \"alone—\" — each line stepping further in, the em dashes intact, the word \"alone—\" landing exactly where it always does: at the furthest point from where it started. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-alone-tee\"\u003eThe Alone Tee\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-alone-mug\"\u003eThe Alone Mug\u003c\/a\u003e. 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Especially then.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eEdgar Allan Poe, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1809–1849, Baltimore, Richmond, Philadelphia, New York\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorked as a magazine editor, critic, and writer — never financially stable, always brilliant at the work\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHis wife Virginia Clemm died of tuberculosis in 1847; he survived her by less than three years\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Alone\" describes a way of seeing that was, from childhood, his and no one else's — a perception he never wrote his way out of\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHe was 20 when he wrote it; it wasn't published until he'd been dead 26 years\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42644960280670,"sku":"6735796_16952","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/The_Alone_Journal_Edgar_Allan_Poe.png?v=1776205947"},{"product_id":"the-part-of-all-tennyson-romanticism-journal","title":"The Part of All — Tennyson Romanticism Journal","description":"\u003cp\u003eTennyson wrote \u003cem\u003eUlysses\u003c\/em\u003e in 1833, within days of learning that his closest friend Arthur Hallam had died at twenty-two. He later said the poem gave him the feeling of going forward — not consolation, but momentum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlfred, Lord Tennyson, \"Ulysses\" (1842)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"I am a part of all that I have met;\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTennyson wrote \"Ulysses\" the morning after he learned his closest friend had died suddenly. He was 24. He needed to make something out of the loss, and what he made was an argument: that everything you encounter stays with you, becomes part of what you are. Writing is how you track that. The page is where you find out what you've actually accumulated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you've ever:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStarted writing about one thing and realized it was actually about something that happened ten years ago\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKept a journal because it was the only place you could figure out what you actually thought\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFound, rereading old entries, that you'd forgotten how much you'd already carried\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is for that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWriting isn't just recording — it's the act of finding out what met you and what stayed. The semicolon on the cover is original Tennyson: the sentence isn't over, and neither are you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe three-line quote on a black hardcover. Gold rule beneath it, attribution in a warmer register below that. The semicolon is exactly as Tennyson wrote it — the sentence stays open.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA journal whose cover holds an unfinished sentence is the right place to keep writing. Everything inside continues what’s on the front.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-part-of-all-tee\"\u003eThe Part of All Tee\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-part-of-all-mug\"\u003eThe Part of All Mug\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Journal\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n5.5″ × 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 person who thinks by writing. The traveler who keeps notes. The reader who underlines. The one who has been collecting encounters for years and is only now starting to understand what they add up to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePut it down. Find out what you've met.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAlfred, Lord Tennyson, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1809–1892, England\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrew up in a Lincolnshire rectory, one of 11 children; began writing verse as a child, published his first collection at 17\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQueen Victoria said \u003cem\u003eIn Memoriam\u003c\/em\u003e comforted her after Prince Albert's death; Tennyson became, briefly, a national grief counselor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWaited 11 years to marry Emily Sellwood — the engagement broken off twice for financial reasons; they had 40 years together\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDied at 83 with a Shakespeare volume open on his bed and a window cracked to the night air\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42644967719006,"sku":"9122228_16952","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/The_Part_of_All_Journal_Alfred_Lord_Tennyson.png?v=1776206287"},{"product_id":"the-part-of-all-tennyson-mug","title":"The Part of All — Tennyson Mug","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery place you’ve been. Everyone who changed how you see things. Every book that landed at the right moment. Tennyson’s line doesn’t call any of it the past — it calls it \u003cem\u003eyou\u003c\/em\u003e. That’s not comfort. It’s an accounting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStart your morning with the line Tennyson put in Ulysses's mouth — the one that reframes every place you've been as something you still carry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlfred, Lord Tennyson, \"Ulysses\" (1842)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"I am a part of all that I have met;\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTennyson wrote this at 24, the morning after learning his best friend had died. He needed a reason to keep going and he wrote one: nothing you've met is lost. Every person, every place, every book — absorbed, accumulated, carried forward. The semicolon is original; the sentence goes on, but this is where it stops you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the mug for the person who starts the day with an awareness of what they're made of. Lefties see it. Righties see it. The accumulation doesn't pick sides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe full line — semicolon included, as Tennyson wrote it — runs both sides of the mug, a gold rule separating the quote from the attribution below. The line doesn't end, and the mug doesn't let it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-part-of-all-tee\"\u003eThe Part of All Tee\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-part-of-all-journal\"\u003eThe Part of All Journal\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eYour Morning Inventory\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\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 traveler. The reader. The person who understands that the people they've known, the books they've read, the places they've been — they're not memories. They're materials.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStart the day knowing what you're made of.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAlfred, Lord Tennyson, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1809–1892, England\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQueen Victoria called him her favorite living poet and elevated him to Baron Tennyson in 1850\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Ulysses\" is a dramatic monologue — Tennyson speaking as an aging king who still refuses to stop, written at 24 when he needed to believe the same thing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHis friend Hallam's death also produced \u003cem\u003eIn Memoriam A.H.H.\u003c\/em\u003e (1850) — written over 17 years, one of the longest elegies in English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecited at funerals, carried by explorers, quoted by people who couldn't explain why it held them\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42644971028574,"sku":"8372439_9324","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/The_Part_of_All_Mug_Alfred_Lord_Tennyson.png?v=1776206431"},{"product_id":"the-wider-sky-dickinson-mug","title":"The Wider Sky — Dickinson Mug","description":"\u003cp\u003eDickinson never claimed modesty where the mind was concerned. This is the poem where she made that explicit — and the coffee hasn’t even cooled yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStart your morning with the widest possible claim Dickinson ever made — that the brain contains more than the sky, before the day has had a chance to make you doubt it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmily Dickinson, Poems: Third Series (1896)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The Brain—is wider than the Sky—\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDickinson wrote this as a scientific argument: the brain is wider than the sky, deeper than the sea, and just as heavy as God. She proved it in three stanzas and never had to leave Amherst to do it. This is the mug for the morning when the mind is already moving before the coffee kicks in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTHE BRAIN— arrives in capitals at the top of the mug, the rest of the line following in a smaller voice beneath it. 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More Dickinson: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/possibility-tee\"\u003ePossibility Tee\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-every-door-tee\"\u003eThe Every Door Tee\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Journal\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n5.5″ × 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 thinker who writes to find out what they think. The Dickinson reader. The person who keeps a journal because it's the widest space they have access to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOpen it. THE BRAIN— is already wider than the sky. 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He reported it matter-of-factly and kept seeing things for the rest of his life. By the time he wrote this, he had been engraving his own plates and hand-printing his own books for years. Nobody was asking him to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStart your morning with the most ambitious perceptual claim in English poetry — Blake's instruction to find the whole world in a grain of sand, before the second cup.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWilliam Blake, Auguries of Innocence (written c. 1803, published 1863)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\u003cp\u003eThe rest of \u003cem\u003eAuguries of Innocence\u003c\/em\u003e kept going for 128 more lines — couplets of moral paradox, warning, observation. Almost none of it travels without this opening. What escaped was the quatrain, because it doesn't argue or moralize. It just asks whether you're willing to look that closely. Most people aren't, most mornings. That's what makes it useful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the mug for the morning when you look at your coffee and decide the day deserves the same attention Blake gave a grain of sand. All four lines run both sides — lefties see them, righties see them. Eternity, it turns out, fits in an hour. And in a mug.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll four lines run around the mug without stopping — no punctuation, the capitalized nouns (World, Sand, Heaven, Wild Flower, Infinity, Eternity) carrying the weight Blake gave them in his notebook. The argument wraps the form the way the idea wraps the cosmos: it doesn’t stop at an edge, it continues on the other side.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/grain-of-sand-tee\"\u003eGrain of Sand Tee\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/grain-of-sand-journal\"\u003eGrain of Sand Journal\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/grain-of-sand-tumbler\"\u003eGrain of Sand Tumbler\u003c\/a\u003e. More Blake: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/soar-high-tee\"\u003eSoar High Tee\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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 — 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 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\n\u003ch3\u003eWilliam Blake, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1757–1827, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAt 10, he began seeing visions — angels in a tree, the prophet Ezekiel in a field; he never stopped, and never apologized for it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe capitalized nouns in \"Auguries of Innocence\" are his — Blake believed language should carry weight the way objects do, each word demanding the respect of a proper name\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eAuguries of Innocence\u003c\/em\u003e opens with this quatrain and then runs for 130 more lines of couplets; this is the part that escaped everything else and became the poem most people mean when they say Blake\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDied in 1827 singing hymns, working to the last day on a series of illustrations for Dante's \u003cem\u003eInferno\u003c\/em\u003e\n\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_Mug_William_Blake.png?v=1776207047"},{"product_id":"grain-of-sand-blake-heretics-tumbler","title":"Grain of Sand — Blake Heretics Tumbler","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlake made his living as a hired engraver — repetitive, exacting work — while writing poems that argued a grain of sand contained the infinite. The line comes from \u003cem\u003eAuguries of Innocence\u003c\/em\u003e, written around 1803 and unpublished in his lifetime. He wasn't speaking in metaphor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTake Blake's most compressed vision with you — from desk to commute to wherever you do the thinking that matters — in the vessel that travels when you do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWilliam Blake, Auguries of Innocence (written c. 1803, published 1863)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\u003cp\u003eBlake was making a claim about scale: that the distance between a grain of sand and a world, between an hour and eternity, is a matter of attention, not measurement. He wrote this in 1803 in a notebook he never published. It reads like the whole argument compressed into the smallest possible container — which is appropriate, given the subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA tumbler is exactly that: something you hold in your hand, all day, that contains more than it looks like it should. The four lines run vertically down the body — the full poem in the full grain, wherever you take it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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 poem running along the length the way a long thought does. Something small carrying something infinite. The argument fits in your hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/grain-of-sand-tee\"\u003eGrain of Sand Tee\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/grain-of-sand-mug\"\u003eGrain of Sand Mug\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/grain-of-sand-journal\"\u003eGrain of Sand Journal\u003c\/a\u003e. More Blake: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/soar-high-tee\"\u003eSoar High Tee\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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 only — 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\n\u003ch3\u003eWilliam Blake, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1757–1827, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA mystic, a printer, a painter, and a poet — he considered all four the same practice and refused to separate them\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAldous Huxley borrowed \"The Doors of Perception\" from Blake's \u003cem\u003eThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell\u003c\/em\u003e; Jim Morrison named his band after it; Blake would have found both entirely reasonable\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDied nearly unknown; his obituary in the \u003cem\u003eLiterary Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e was nine lines; the full \u003cem\u003eAuguries of Innocence\u003c\/em\u003e wasn't published until 1863\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe opening four lines are the most memorized quatrain in English Romantic poetry — which Blake wrote as the throwaway preamble to 130 lines of moral couplets\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\/Grain_of_Sand_Tumbler_William_Blake.png?v=1776207199"},{"product_id":"grain-of-sand-blake-journal","title":"Grain of Sand — Blake Journal","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlake spent years as a professional engraver — hired work, repetitive and exacting — while writing poems that argued the cosmos could be read in a single grain of sand. He wasn't speaking metaphorically. He meant it as a claim about attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA literary journal featuring William Blake’s “To see a World in a Grain of Sand \/ And a Heaven in a Wild Flower \/ Hold Infinity in th...” from Songs of Innocence and Experience. Literary objects by Quoteiac.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWilliam Blake, Auguries of Innocence (written c. 1803, published 1863)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\u003cp\u003eBlake kept \u003cem\u003eAuguries of Innocence\u003c\/em\u003e in a notebook for years before anyone else saw it. It was published 36 years after his death. He wrote it anyway — not because he expected an audience, but because the act of putting it down was the point. A journal with this on the cover is for the same kind of attention: the kind that doesn't need an audience to justify itself. The kind that finds the world in a grain of sand because it was looking that carefully to begin with.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you've ever:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWritten something in a notebook that turned out to be larger than the thing you thought you were writing about\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFilled pages about something small and discovered it was actually about everything\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKept a journal because attention — even to small things, especially to small things — is the practice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is for that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWriting isn't just recording — it's the act of looking until you see what's actually there. Blake put World, Grain, Sand, Heaven, Wild Flower, Infinity, Eternity in a single quatrain with no punctuation to slow it down. A journal is where you do the same work, one page at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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 capitalized them in 1803. World. Sand. Heaven. Wild Flower. Infinity. Eternity. The poem is the whole cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/grain-of-sand-tee\"\u003eGrain of Sand Tee\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/grain-of-sand-mug\"\u003eGrain of Sand Mug\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/grain-of-sand-tumbler\"\u003eGrain of Sand Tumbler\u003c\/a\u003e. More Blake: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/soar-high-journal\"\u003eSoar High Journal\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Journal\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n5.5″ × 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\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\n\u003ch3\u003eWilliam Blake, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1757–1827, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWrote \u003cem\u003eSongs of Innocence and Experience\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eJerusalem\u003c\/em\u003e — each a complete visual and textual work he designed, engraved, printed, and colored by hand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHis wife Catherine learned to read specifically to help him with his work; she printed alongside him for 45 years and claimed to have seen his visions too\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo punctuation in the opening quatrain of \u003cem\u003eAuguries of Innocence\u003c\/em\u003e — intentional; Blake wanted the images to roll into each other without the pause of a comma to stop them\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRediscovered in the 1860s; by the 20th century he had become one of 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_Journal_William_Blake.png?v=1776207318"},{"product_id":"we-are-mankind-wells-heretics-phone-case","title":"We Are Mankind — Wells Heretics Phone Case","description":"\u003cp\u003eWells spent four years writing \u003cem\u003eThe Outline of History\u003c\/em\u003e, publishing it in installments beginning in 1919 — the year after a war organized along exactly the lines of nationality he was arguing against. The line that stayed is the one that made the counter-argument in five words.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarry the largest possible claim about who you belong to — Wells wrote it in 1920, in a world still sorting out the aftermath of one war and heading toward another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eH.G. Wells, The Outline of History (1920)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Our true nationality is mankind.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWells wrote \u003cem\u003eThe Outline of History\u003c\/em\u003e in 1920, in the wreckage of the First World War, after watching nationalism carry millions of people to their deaths in the name of lines on a map. Five words. The biggest possible frame for who we are. It sits on the back of a phone — something most people carry in one hand while arguing with strangers in another country — which feels about right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA large gold opening quotation mark anchors the top, and the quote drops underneath it in four lines — \"Our true\" \/ \"nationality\" \/ \"is\" \/ \"mankind.\" — its own line, its own weight. The attribution runs below in gold. The design moves slowly: one word at a time, arriving at the only conclusion that fits everyone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/we-are-mankind-tee\"\u003eWe Are Mankind Tee\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/we-are-mankind-mug\"\u003eWe Are Mankind Mug\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/we-are-mankind-long-sleeve-tee\"\u003eWe Are Mankind Long Sleeve Tee\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Case\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\nTough dual-layer construction — flexible TPU inner layer, hard polycarbonate outer shell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\nFull black back panel — sublimation edge to edge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\niPhone 11 through 17 — all models and sizes, select yours at checkout\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRaised edges protect the screen; precise cutouts for camera, buttons, and ports\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClean with a damp cloth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\nInduction charging compatible — works with most wireless devices\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCare note: Keep away from liquids with high alcohol content and prolonged direct sunlight to preserve the design.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It's For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe internationalist. 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That’s the point.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePercy Bysshe Shelley, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1792–1822, England\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWrote “Ode to the West Wind,” “Ozymandias,” “Adonais,” and “To a Skylark” — each now a standard of the English canon; none widely read while he was alive\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe ellipsis in “We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon...” is the original — the poem continues, but the line is already complete; Shelley lets it trail because that’s what transience does\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHis circle included Byron, Keats, and his wife Mary — four people who between them produced more enduring work in a decade than most literary movements manage in a century\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDrowned at 29 while sailing in a storm off the Italian coast in 1822\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42647153115230,"sku":"6315321_9324","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/The_Midnight_Moon_Mug_Percy_Bysshe_Shelley.png?v=1776233817"},{"product_id":"the-midnight-moon-p-shelley-mutability-journal","title":"The Midnight Moon — P. 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The journal is where you catch it before it goes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree lines of the poem sit on a black hardcover, a warm burnished rule beneath them, the attribution in warm gray below. The ellipsis is Shelley’s own — the opening image trailing into the rest of the stanza, which the cover leaves to you. 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