{"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Blake’s grain-of-sand quatrain makes a fitting companion: four lines he wrote around 1803, in a manuscript that stayed unpublished until decades after his death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poem makes a claim about scale: that the distance between a grain of sand and a world, an hour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","url":"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/grain-of-sand-blake-heretics-tumbler","provider":"Quoteiac","version":"1.0","type":"link"}