{"product_id":"the-unbegun-rossetti-dark-romanticism-t-shirt","title":"The Unbegun — Rossetti Dark Romanticism T-Shirt","description":"\u003cp\u003eA t-shirt featuring Christina Rossetti's \"What is not begun \/ Is not undone.\" from Amor Mundi (1865). Dark Romanticism literary apparel by Quoteiac.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRossetti wrote this in Time Flies at fifty-four — a devotional anthology, not a manifesto — which somehow makes the urgency sharper. Wear the thing that keeps you from being unbegun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \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 \u003cem\u003eTime Flies\u003c\/em\u003e in 1885, while managing Graves' disease and caring for her aging mother. She'd been writing for decades by then — she knew what it cost to start something, and exactly what it cost not to. This isn't a meditation on failure. It's a judgment: unfinished work at least proves you tried. The real loss is the work that never had a chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis isn't a t-shirt. It's a verdict.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou're not the person who's afraid of finishing. You're the one who's afraid of never starting — and you know the difference.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you've ever:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKept a notebook half-filled for three years and started a new one instead of finishing the old\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHad an idea so good you were afraid to begin it in case you did it badly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLooked at someone else's finished thing and felt something close to grief for the thing you hadn't started yet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is for you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe design lays the question on two lines and then answers it — the answer landing heavier because it comes last. A full stop at the end. Nothing left to argue with.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-unbegun-mug\"\u003eThe Unbegun Mug\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-unbegun-journal\"\u003eThe Unbegun Journal\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Tee\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n100% combed ring-spun cotton — soft, breathable, pre-shrunk\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n4.2 oz\/yd² — lightweight retail fit, set-in sleeves, ribbed collar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\nUnisex sizing — fitted cut; size up if between sizes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMachine wash cold, tumble dry low\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuoteiac logo on sleeve\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It's For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe maker who keeps revising the plan. The writer who has seventeen first chapters. 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