{"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\/products\/grain-of-sand-blake-journal","provider":"Quoteiac","version":"1.0","type":"link"}