{"product_id":"the-wider-sky-dickinson-mug","title":"The Wider Sky — Dickinson Mug","description":"\u003cp\u003eDickinson never claimed modesty where the mind was concerned. This is the poem where she made that explicit — and the coffee hasn't even cooled yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmily Dickinson — manuscript, c. 1862\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The Brain—is wider than the Sky—\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poem measures the brain against the sky, the sea, and God — and finds it larger each time, in three tight stanzas she never had to leave Amherst to write. It reads like a proof. This is the mug for the morning when the mind is already moving before the coffee kicks in. (First published in 1896, a decade after her death, with her dashes quietly regularized away — restored here as she wrote them.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTHE BRAIN— arrives in capitals at the top of the mug, the rest of the line following in a smaller voice beneath it. Both sides carry the same hierarchy. The em dashes are Dickinson's — printed here exactly as she wrote them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-wider-sky-dickinson-quote-t-shirt\"\u003eWider Sky Tee\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-wider-sky-dickinson-poems-journal\"\u003eJournal\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-wider-sky-dickinson-phone-case\"\u003ePhone Case\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eYour Morning Sky\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e15 oz glossy black ceramic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo-sided print — same design each side, so it reads whether you reach left or right\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDishwasher safe (top rack)\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 thinker whose mind is already running before the day starts. The reader who keeps Dickinson close. Anyone who's ever needed the reminder that the most interesting place in the room is the one they carry with them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Brain— is wider. Start there.\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 — almost none published during her lifetime; she stitched them into hand-sewn booklets called fascicles and kept them in a trunk\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHer sister Lavinia found the manuscripts after her death and spent years finding someone willing to publish them\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShe gardened obsessively, baked prize-winning bread, and once lowered gingerbread to neighborhood children from her window in a basket\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe first editors changed her dashes to commas and her slant rhymes to something tidier — the originals weren't restored for decades\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42644983185502,"sku":"1759925_9324","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/The_Wider_Sky_Dickinson_Mug_front.png?v=1782880286","url":"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-wider-sky-dickinson-mug","provider":"Quoteiac","version":"1.0","type":"link"}