{"product_id":"the-midnight-moon-p-shelley-mutability-t-shirt","title":"The Midnight Moon — P. Shelley Mutability T-Shirt","description":"\u003cp\u003eShelley wrote this before he was twenty-five. The poem is twelve lines long. The title tells you everything: nothing stays.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePercy Bysshe Shelley, \"Mutability\" (1816)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon...\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShelley wrote \"Mutability\" in 1816, at 24, on a question he'd already been living: if nothing holds still, if everything shifts and passes — what are we? The answer the poem offers isn't despair. It's recognition. We are the clouds. We are the thing that passes across the face of what's permanent, briefly beautiful, briefly obscuring, and then gone. The poem continues, but the line is already finished.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you've ever:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLooked at something beautiful and felt the looking and the losing happen at the same time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnderstood that the impermanence of something is part of what makes it matter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRead a line that trailed off and felt it was more complete for the ellipsis than it would have been with a period\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the back: Shelley’s opening image in three lines, unfinished. The ellipsis at the end isn’t a design choice — it’s in the poem. Walking around in it means carrying a sentence that doesn’t close, a thought still moving.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso available: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-midnight-moon-p-shelley-mutability-mug\"\u003eThe Midnight Moon Mug\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-midnight-moon-p-shelley-mutability-journal\"\u003eThe Midnight Moon Journal\u003c\/a\u003e.\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\u003eThe person who understands impermanence and has stopped fighting it. The reader who finds Shelley returning to them at unexpected moments. The one who looks at the night sky and feels both small and exactly right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBe the cloud. Veil the moon. Keep moving.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003ePercy Bysshe Shelley, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1792–1822, England — drowned in the Bay of Spezia, Italy, at 29\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Mutability\" (1816) is one of his earliest great poems — written at 24, it poses the question the rest of his work spent trying to answer: if everything changes, what can we hold onto?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExpelled from Oxford at 18 for publishing a pamphlet on atheism; remained a radical thinker in politics, religion, and love for his entire short life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMarried Mary Godwin — later Mary Shelley, author of \u003cem\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/em\u003e — after his first wife died; the two were at the center of the most consequential literary circle of the Romantic era\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished almost nothing during his lifetime that reached a wide audience; considered one of the greatest lyric poets in English within a generation of his death\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eSize Chart (Bella + Canvas)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eSize\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eWidth (in)\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eLength (in)\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eXS\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.5\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e27\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eS\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e18\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e28\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eM\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e20\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e29\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eL\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e22\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e30\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eXL\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e24\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e31\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e2XL\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e26\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e32\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"XS","offer_id":42647150657630,"sku":"8089346_21593","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"S","offer_id":42647150690398,"sku":"8089346_21594","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":42647150723166,"sku":"8089346_21595","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":42647150755934,"sku":"8089346_21596","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":42647150788702,"sku":"8089346_21597","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2XL","offer_id":42647150821470,"sku":"8089346_21598","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/The_Midnight_Moon_Tee_Percy_Bysshe_Shelley.png?v=1776233432","url":"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-midnight-moon-p-shelley-mutability-t-shirt","provider":"Quoteiac","version":"1.0","type":"link"}