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The Wider Sky — Emily Dickinson — phone case — curious mind — black — front — Quoteiac
The Wider Sky — Emily Dickinson — phone case — curious mind — black — detail view — Quoteiac
The Wider Sky — Emily Dickinson — phone case — curious mind — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
The Wider Sky — Emily Dickinson — phone case — curious mind — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
The Wider Sky — Emily Dickinson — phone case — curious mind — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
The Wider Sky — Emily Dickinson — phone case — curious mind — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
The Wider Sky — Emily Dickinson — phone case — curious mind — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
The Wider Sky — Emily Dickinson — phone case — curious mind — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
The Wider Sky — Emily Dickinson — phone case — curious mind — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
The Wider Sky — Emily Dickinson — phone case — curious mind — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
The Wider Sky — Emily Dickinson — phone case — curious mind — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
The Wider Sky — Emily Dickinson — phone case — curious mind — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
The Wider Sky — Emily Dickinson — phone case — curious mind — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
The Wider Sky — Emily Dickinson — phone case — curious mind — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
The Wider Sky — Emily Dickinson — phone case — curious mind — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
The Wider Sky — Emily Dickinson — phone case — curious mind — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
The Wider Sky — Emily Dickinson — phone case — curious mind — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
The Wider Sky — Emily Dickinson — phone case — curious mind — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
The Wider Sky — Emily Dickinson — phone case — curious mind — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
The Wider Sky — Emily Dickinson — phone case — curious mind — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
The Wider Sky — Emily Dickinson — phone case — curious mind — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
The Wider Sky — Emily Dickinson — phone case — curious mind — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
The Wider Sky — Emily Dickinson — phone case — curious mind — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
The Wider Sky — Emily Dickinson — phone case — curious mind — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
The Wider Sky — Emily Dickinson — phone case — curious mind — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
The Wider Sky — Emily Dickinson — phone case — curious mind — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
The Wider Sky — Emily Dickinson — phone case — curious mind — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
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The Wider Sky — Dickinson Phone Case

Price$32.00

Dickinson wrote this in the 1860s. The word she chose over "mind" was "Brain" — and that wasn't an accident. Carry the distinction.

Emily Dickinson — manuscript, c. 1862

"The Brain—is wider than the Sky—"

She wrote it around 1862, structured like a proof, not a lyric — three stanzas measuring the brain against the sky, the sea, and God, finding it larger each time, from a house she rarely left in Amherst. The em dashes are hers; they were on the original manuscript. They mean: hold this thought right here before the next one arrives. (The 1896 first edition removed them; they're restored here.)

The Design

THE BRAIN— sits at the top of the text block in large capitals, the em dash attached, and then "is wider than the Sky—" follows in a smaller, quieter voice underneath. The upper half of the case is open black — negative space that gives the claim room to land.

Also on the Wider Sky Tee, Mug, and Journal.

About This Case

  • Tough dual-layer construction — flexible TPU inner layer, hard polycarbonate outer shell
  • Full black back panel — design covers the full back panel, edge to edge
  • iPhone 11 through 17 — all models and sizes, select yours at checkout
  • Raised edges protect the screen; precise cutouts for camera, buttons, and ports
  • Clean with a damp cloth
  • Wireless charging compatible — works with most Qi enabled devices

Care note: keep away from liquids with high alcohol content and prolonged direct sunlight to preserve the design.

Who It's For

The thinker. The reader. The person who picks up their phone and puts it down again because what's in their head is more interesting. Anyone who's ever stared at the sky and felt the thing doing the looking was larger.

THE BRAIN— is wider. Carry the proof.

Emily Dickinson, in Plain English

  • Lived: 1830–1886, Amherst, Massachusetts — rarely left the house after her mid-30s
  • Wrote nearly 1,800 poems; almost none published during her lifetime — kept in hand-sewn booklets in a trunk
  • The em dashes are her punctuation, not errors — used as breath marks; not widely restored until Thomas H. Johnson's 1955 edition
  • Her sister Lavinia found the manuscripts after her death and spent years finding someone willing to publish them
  • Died at 55; within a decade her poems were in classrooms and already being argued about
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The Wider Sky — Emily Dickinson — phone case — curious mind — black — front — Quoteiac
The Wider Sky — Dickinson Phone Case Price$32.00