{"product_id":"possibility-dickinson-curious-mind-mug","title":"Possibility — Dickinson Curious Mind Mug","description":"\u003cp\u003eDickinson bound her poems herself, in hand-stitched fascicles she kept in a box. She was describing her actual address.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmily Dickinson, c. 1862\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"I dwell in Possibility —\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe opening line of an untitled poem — she never named it; the first word was title enough. She wrote it from near-total seclusion in Amherst, barely leaving the house, rarely publishing — and still chose Possibility as her address, setting it against Prose: the ordinary, the expected, the room you're already standing in. Poetry had the wider windows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe italic opener — \"I dwell in —\" — sits above a copper rule. Then the sentence resolves: POSSIBILITY, large and certain. A second copper rule closes beneath it, with a small cream diamond and the attribution below. The design treats the line as a journey: the opener floats in italics, the em dash holds the breath, and POSSIBILITY arrives — not as a hope, but as where she already lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead the full story: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/blogs\/quoteiac-journal\/dickinson-private-journals-public-fame\"\u003eWhy Emily Dickinson Valued Private Journals Over Public Fame\u003c\/a\u003e. Also: the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/possibility-dickinson-curious-mind-t-shirt\"\u003ePossibility Tee\u003c\/a\u003e, and the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-every-door-dickinson-curious-mind-t-shirt\"\u003eEvery Door Tee\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Mug\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e15 oz glossy black ceramic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted on both sides (same design each side — not a wraparound)\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 begins the day open rather than braced. The creative, the dreamer, the one who still believes this particular day might be the one where something shifts. A good gift for someone starting something new — a project, a chapter, a year they want to mean something.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWide windows. Wider thinking. Start here.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eEmily Dickinson, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1830–1886, Amherst, Massachusetts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWrote nearly 1,800 poems — fewer than a dozen published in her lifetime\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHer signature: em dashes where other punctuation would do, capitalization for emphasis, white space that worked as hard as the words\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished posthumously, her work reshaped American poetry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRarely left her family home, yet wrote poems that stretched wider than any house could hold\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42623089508446,"sku":"5887127_9324","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/Possibility_Dickinson_Curious_Mind_Mug.png?v=1782507271","url":"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/possibility-dickinson-curious-mind-mug","provider":"Quoteiac","version":"1.0","type":"link"}