{"title":"Zen Philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003eI keep returning to Zen because it does not ask us to make life neat. It asks us to see more clearly what is already there: the unfinished circle, the visible fracture, the beauty that appears when balance is allowed to shift.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn \u003cem\u003eensō\u003c\/em\u003e is brushed in a single stroke, complete without being perfected. It can hold wholeness and emptiness at once—the mark, the space inside it, and the moment in which both were made.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKintsugi\u003c\/em\u003e refuses to disguise what has broken. Gold follows the fracture instead, making the object’s history part of its beauty. Damage is neither erased nor treated as the end of the story. Resilience remains visible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFukinsei\u003c\/em\u003e finds life in asymmetry: the off-center, the irregular, the composition that feels true because it was never forced into perfect balance. It belongs beside \u003cem\u003ewabi-sabi\u003c\/em\u003e—not as a celebration of carelessness, but as a rejection of lifeless perfection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRilke was not writing from the Zen tradition, but he often wrote toward the same territory. In \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Hours\u003c\/em\u003e, life moves through dark hours and widening circles rather than along a clean, ascending line. The circles grow. They don’t close.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection carries those ideas into literary tees, phone cases, journals, and tumblers—ensō gifts and kintsugi apparel for people drawn to a more demanding kind of Zen philosophy. These are not generic mindfulness products. They are objects built around a proposition: what is incomplete, broken, or deliberately unbalanced may be where the meaning begins.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"not-to-have-tried-woodberry-heretics-t-shirt","title":"Not to Have Tried — Woodberry Organic Tee","description":"\u003cp\u003eA black organic cotton literary quote t-shirt featuring George Edward Woodberry’s “Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.” — verified from the primary source. Garment-dyed literary apparel by Quoteiac.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWendell Phillips spent forty years being pelted with rotten eggs in public halls — threatened, shouted down, called a traitor. He kept going back. George Woodberry watched that life and wrote something that wasn't advice. It was a verdict.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGeorge Edward Woodberry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Defeat is not the worst of failures. 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Anthony Ludovici, 1911\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eContext\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe line appears in \u003cem\u003eTwilight of the Idols\u003c\/em\u003e, written in Turin in the autumn of 1888 — one of the last things Nietzsche completed before his collapse. He wasn’t writing about exercise; he was writing about the relationship between a body in motion and a mind that’s actually working. The book’s title mocks Wagner’s \u003cem\u003eTwilight of the Gods\u003c\/em\u003e, turning epic grandeur into a provocation. Ludovici’s 1911 English edition is confirmed public domain via Project Gutenberg.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe same instinct shows up a century later in Steve Jobs, who reserved his most serious conversations for long walks — a habit Walter Isaacson documents throughout his 2011 biography. 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In your hand the imbalance is physical — the quote pulls left, the rule pulls right, and somewhere between them is the act of walking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/by-walking-nietzsche-twilight-t-shirt\"\u003eBy Walking Tee\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Case\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTough dual-layer construction — flexible TPU inner layer, hard polycarbonate outer shell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRaised edges protect the screen and camera\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInduction charging compatible — works with most wireless devices\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eCare note: keep away from liquids with high alcohol content and prolonged direct sunlight to preserve the design.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFriedrich Nietzsche, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1844–1900, Germany — philosopher and classicist, among the most misattributed thinkers of the last 150 years\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eTwilight of the Idols\u003c\/em\u003e, where this line appears, was written in about two weeks in 1888 — the last productive year of his life, dense with aphorisms and aggressively short on patience\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpent years walking the Alps and the Italian coast as a deliberate practice; 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Anyone who has circled long enough to know the widening isn't aimlessness — it's accumulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCarry the circles.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore in this set: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/life-in-circles-rilke-organic-edition-t-shirt\"\u003eLife in Circles Organic Tee\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/rilke-life-in-circles-phone-case\"\u003eLife in Circles Phone Case\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eRainer Maria Rilke, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived 1875–1926, born in Prague; wrote in German, and in French late in life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Book of Hours (1905) was written in three parts across 1899–1903, the first composed rapidly after his first journey to Russia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeclined psychoanalysis — he wrote that he feared losing his \"devils\" would cost him his \"angels,\" his term for what made the poems possible\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDied in 1926 of leukemia, in a Swiss sanatorium; the popular rose-thorn story is a romantic legend, not the medical cause\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"size-guide-title\"\u003eSize guide\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-unit-system=\"imperial\" class=\"table-responsive dynamic\"\u003e\n\u003ctable cellpadding=\"5\"\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWIDTH (inches)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLENGTH (inches)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e20 oz\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e2 ⅞\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e8 ⅜\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42773595717726,"sku":"9645005_15004","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/Life_in_Circles_Rilke_Quote_Tumbler.png?v=1779075882"},{"product_id":"the-truth-wilde-literary-t-shirt","title":"The Truth — Wilde Literary T-Shirt","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe line is spoken by Algernon in Act I — Wilde’s most deliberately unreliable character — which is probably why it’s the truest thing in the play.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOscar Wilde\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The truth is rarely pure and never simple.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilde gave this line to Algernon in Act I of \u003cem\u003eThe Importance of Being Earnest\u003c\/em\u003e — a drawing-room comedy where everyone is performing something and the sharpest observations arrive dressed as small talk. 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Browse the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/collections\/oscar-wilde\"\u003efull Oscar Wilde collection\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Case\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTough dual-layer construction — flexible TPU inner layer, hard polycarbonate outer shell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRaised edges protect the screen and camera\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe design wraps onto the sides intentionally — the enso continues beyond the back panel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInduction charging compatible — works with most wireless devices\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It's For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe one who thinks before answering. The reader who trusts footnotes more than headlines. Anyone who has watched something real get flattened into a talking point and felt the loss of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKeep the complicated thing intact.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eOscar Wilde, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1854–1900, Dublin to London to Paris — in roughly increasing order of exile\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHe was celebrated by the same public that watched him be destroyed: packed theatres, then a packed courtroom\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHis plays sold out London's West End. Four years later he was doing hard labor in Reading Gaol for being gay\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased in 1897, he never recovered financially or socially. 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Whitman spent that preface telling readers what to do with their lives, and then spent the rest of his life dismantling it and feeding the pieces into his poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWalt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass, first edition, 1855\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"…re-examine all you have been told…\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eContext\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou've been handed answers by people who were confident. Teachers, institutions, whatever you scrolled past this morning. Whitman's instruction is to go back through all of it — and he includes his own book in the list.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sentence finishes: \u003cem\u003edismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.\u003c\/em\u003e Not a suggestion to be skeptical. A condition for becoming something.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It's For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou check things yourself rather than take the first answer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou reach for your phone dozens of times a day and would rather see a sentence than a logo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe books you've read have changed what you believe, more than once\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe words come down the face in four steps, each one further right than the last, like a thought working itself out rather than a slogan arriving finished. On something you pick up all day, it reads as an unfinished argument — which it is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat refusal to line up is \u003cem\u003efukinsei\u003c\/em\u003e, the Japanese principle of deliberate imbalance. The dots opening and closing the line mark it honestly as a fragment: more came before, more comes after.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Case\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDual-layer construction — flexible inner layer, hard polycarbonate outer shell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRaised edges protect the screen and camera\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeep black ground runs to every edge; the lines sit clear of the camera cutout\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWireless charging compatible — works with most Qi-enabled devices\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKeep away from prolonged direct sunlight and high-alcohol liquids to preserve the design.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWalt Whitman, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBorn in West Hills, New York, 1819; died in Camden, New Jersey, 1892\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLeft school at eleven and learned the printing trade — he set type, chose paper, and argued with binders for the rest of his life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelf-published the first \u003cem\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/em\u003e in 1855: a preface and twelve untitled poems. 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It's how much.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Tee\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLightweight 4.2 oz\/yd² (142 g\/m²) combed and ring-spun cotton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnisex relaxed fit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVintage black\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMachine wash cold, inside out; tumble dry low\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuoteiac logo on the left sleeve\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"table-responsive\"\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWalt Whitman, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBorn in West Hills, New York, 1819; died in Camden, New Jersey, 1892\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSet type as a young man and never stopped thinking like a printer — he oversaw the physical making of his own books\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelf-published the first \u003cem\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/em\u003e in 1855: a preface and twelve untitled poems, his name nowhere on the title page. He rebuilt the book five more times over the next twenty-six years\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorked as a schoolteacher, a newspaper editor and a government clerk — the poems came out of the day job, not instead of it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe 1881 Osgood edition is where the book finally held its shape: five new clusters, poems grouped by argument instead of chronology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eMore from this collection\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/resist-much-obey-little-whitman-phone-case\"\u003eResist Much, Obey Little — Whitman Phone Case\u003c\/a\u003e — the same four words, carried. 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Whitman put the instruction at the end of the first one, then spent the next two explaining what happens if you ignore it — which is the opposite of how anyone writes a slogan. He published it in 1860 under a different title and was still moving it around the book twenty years later. We chose the middle for our design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWalt Whitman, \"To the States,\" Leaves of Grass, 1881\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Resist much, obey little\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eContext\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe full opening line runs: \u003cem\u003eTo the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little,\u003c\/em\u003e — and it doesn't stop there. The next two lines set the price: once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved; once fully enslaved, no nation, state, or city ever afterward resumes its liberty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe wrote it in 1860, a year before the country went to war with itself over exactly that question. It appeared under three different cluster headings across three decades. The words never changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It's For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou read the news and work out for yourself what it means\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou've been told to fall in line and found a better answer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou reach for your phone dozens of times a day and would rather see something worth reading\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne word is heavier than everything around it — \u003cem\u003emuch\u003c\/em\u003e. Whitman didn't write \"resist.\" He wrote how much, and the design puts the weight exactly there. You'll read that word first every time you pick up the phone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhitman ran the four words together inside a longer line. Splitting them across two puts the pause where the comma already was, and lets \u003cem\u003eresist\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eobey\u003c\/em\u003e sit directly above and below each other — the choice stated twice. The two halves never align; the second steps right of the first and stays there. That's the same deliberate off-balance — \u003cem\u003efukinsei\u003c\/em\u003e — that runs through this collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Case\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDual-layer construction — flexible inner layer, hard polycarbonate outer shell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRaised edges protect the screen and camera\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeep black ground runs to every edge; the words sit clear of the camera cutout\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWireless charging compatible — works with most Qi-enabled devices\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKeep away from prolonged direct sunlight and high-alcohol liquids to preserve the design.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWalt Whitman, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBorn in West Hills, New York, 1819; died in Camden, New Jersey, 1892\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelf-published the first \u003cem\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/em\u003e in 1855: a preface and twelve untitled poems. He rebuilt the book five more times over the next twenty-six years\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpent the Civil War years in Washington as an unpaid hospital visitor, sitting with wounded soldiers on both sides\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived his last nineteen years in Camden, New Jersey, receiving visitors from three continents\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe 1881 Osgood edition is the one that settled the arrangement — the clusters, the order, where each poem finally lived\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eMore from this collection\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/resist-much-obey-little-whitman-t-shirt\"\u003eResist Much, Obey Little — Whitman T-Shirt\u003c\/a\u003e — the same four words, worn. 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These don’t, and an hour nobody has spent for you is the only place a second life fits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It’s For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou’re the one who protects an hour before anyone else has a claim on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIf you’ve ever moved three other things to keep one stretch of the day clear\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIf you’ve ever chosen the version that cost more because you knew how it was made\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIf you’ve ever found that the hour you guarded was the only one that changed anything\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMake the room.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mark reads two ways at once. It’s an ensō — the Zen circle drawn in a single breath and left open on purpose — and it’s a moon, weighted along one edge and thinning to nothing along the other. Both readings are meant to be there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt crosses the words instead of sitting behind them, and pewter is what makes that possible: bright enough to hold against the cloth, soft enough that the cream letters passing through it still read. Nothing fills the circle — what’s inside it is the shirt. On French Navy that gives you a warmer dark than black does, and the moon sits closer to the ground it’s printed on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Tee\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the organic edition, and it costs more than the standard tee. GOTS certification is what you’re paying for: an audited chain from the cotton crop through spinning, dyeing and the factory itself — not a claim about the fiber alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e100% GOTS-certified organic ring-spun cotton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFabric weight: 4.6 oz\/yd² (156 g\/m²)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnisex fit, true to size — closer to the body than a relaxed cut\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSide-seamed construction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFront chest print, on French Navy or Black\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMachine wash cold, inside out; tumble dry low\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuoteiac logo on the left sleeve\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"table-responsive\"\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEU sizing. Refer to the chart — fit varies by body type.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eRainer Maria Rilke, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived 1875–1926 — born in Prague, wrote in German, worked across Germany, France, Italy and Switzerland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eDas Stunden-Buch\u003c\/em\u003e was written in three short bursts — 1899, 1901 and 1903 — and published in Leipzig by Insel Verlag in 1905\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorked in Paris as Auguste Rodin’s secretary in 1905–06; watching a sculptor work changed how he wrote about looking at things\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eLetters to a Young Poet\u003c\/em\u003e — written between 1903 and 1908 to a young military cadet — was published in 1929 and is still widely read\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRobert Bly’s later English version opens this line “I love the dark hours of my being.”\u003cbr\u003eThe wording printed here is Jessie Lemont's, from 1918 — the version in the public domain. Lemont renders freely rather than line for line: Rilke's German runs twelve lines, her English eight\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eMore from this collection\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"\/products\/dark-hours-rilke-tee\"\u003eMy Life’s Dark Hours — Rilke T-Shirt\u003c\/a\u003e — the same line on standard cotton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"\/products\/dark-hours-rilke-journal\"\u003eMy Life’s Dark Hours — Rilke Journal\u003c\/a\u003e — the line held open with an ellipsis, for writing into the hour rather than wearing it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"\/products\/dark-hours-rilke-phone-case\"\u003eMy Life’s Dark Hours — Rilke Phone Case\u003c\/a\u003e — the same ensō, carried\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"\/products\/life-in-circles-rilke-organic-edition-t-shirt\"\u003eLife in Circles — Rilke Organic Edition T-Shirt\u003c\/a\u003e — the organic edition of the line four poems earlier\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"\/products\/life-in-circles-rilke-book-of-hours-t-shirt\"\u003eLife in Circles — Rilke Book of Hours T-Shirt\u003c\/a\u003e — the same cycle, standard cotton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"\/products\/rilke-life-in-circles-phone-case\"\u003eRilke Life in Circles Phone Case\u003c\/a\u003e — the same line, carried\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"\/products\/life-in-circles-rilke-quote-tumbler\"\u003eLife in Circles — Rilke Quote Tumbler\u003c\/a\u003e — the design wrapped, not flat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"\/pages\/rilke-circles\"\u003eExplore “I live my life in circles” →\u003c\/a\u003e — the quote page for the line four poems earlier\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/rilke\"\u003eThe full Rilke collection\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"French Navy \/ S","offer_id":43137033371742,"sku":"5019981_21332","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"French Navy \/ M","offer_id":43137033404510,"sku":"5019981_21333","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"French Navy \/ L","offer_id":43137033437278,"sku":"5019981_21334","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"French Navy \/ XL","offer_id":43137033470046,"sku":"5019981_21335","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"French Navy \/ 2XL","offer_id":43137033502814,"sku":"5019981_21336","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black \/ S","offer_id":43137033535582,"sku":"5019981_21322","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black \/ M","offer_id":43137033568350,"sku":"5019981_21323","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black \/ L","offer_id":43137033601118,"sku":"5019981_21324","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black \/ XL","offer_id":43137033633886,"sku":"5019981_21325","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black \/ 2XL","offer_id":43137033666654,"sku":"5019981_21326","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/My-Lifes-Dark-Hours-Rilke-Organic-Tee-french-navy.png?v=1786176827"},{"product_id":"my-lifes-dark-hours-rilke-journal","title":"My Life’s Dark Hours — Rilke Journal","description":"\u003cp\u003eBook I of \u003cem\u003eDas Stunden-Buch\u003c\/em\u003e was not written in one sitting, or one year. Rilke came back to the work in three separate bursts — 1899, 1901, 1903 — before Insel published it in Leipzig in 1905. The book you’re looking at is built on the same permission.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“I love my life’s dark hours…”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nRainer Maria Rilke, \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Hours\u003c\/em\u003e (1905), Book I, poem 6\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e— Jessie Lemont translation, 1918. Public domain.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eContext\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cover stops mid-thought and stays there. That’s the argument of the object: a sentence left open on the outside, and eighty blank pages behind it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYou are not expected to finish it tonight, or well, or in order. The poem it comes from took four years and three attempts, and it was published anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It’s For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou’re the one who writes when it’s hard, not only when it’s going well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIf you’ve ever written the real version of something at an hour you’d never admit to\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIf you’ve ever started a notebook, abandoned it for a year, and come back to the same page\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIf you’ve ever needed the page more than you needed anyone to read it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinish the sentence.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe circle is drawn bigger than the line can fit inside it. \u003cem\u003eI love my\u003c\/em\u003e begins outside it on the left, \u003cem\u003elife’s dark\u003c\/em\u003e runs out past it on the right, and the sentence goes straight through the middle rather than sitting politely within. Whatever this is meant to hold, it isn’t holding it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe mark is an ensō — the Zen circle made in a single breath and deliberately left open at the top — carried in pewter, the one value that crosses cream letters without swallowing them. The line stops early, and the three dots of the ellipsis come down on the ring itself. The cream of the type is the cream of the paper inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Journal\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHardcover bound journal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e80 lined pages, cream stock\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5.5″ × 8.5″\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuilt-in elastic closure\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRibbon page marker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExpandable inner pocket\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eRainer Maria Rilke, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived 1875–1926 — born in Prague, wrote in German, worked across Germany, France, Italy and Switzerland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eDas Stunden-Buch\u003c\/em\u003e was written in three short bursts — 1899, 1901 and 1903 — and published in Leipzig by Insel Verlag in 1905\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBook I is written in the borrowed voice of a monk, as a sequence of prayers rather than poems with titles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eLetters to a Young Poet\u003c\/em\u003e — ten letters written between 1903 and 1908 to a young military cadet — was published in 1929 and is still widely read\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRobert Bly’s later English version opens this line “I love the dark hours of my being.” The wording printed here is Jessie Lemont’s, from 1918 — the version in the public domain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eMore from this collection\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"\/products\/my-lifes-dark-hours-rilke-phone-case\"\u003eMy Life’s Dark Hours — Rilke Phone Case\u003c\/a\u003e — the same abbreviated line, carried\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"\/products\/my-lifes-dark-hours-rilke-organic-edition-t-shirt\"\u003eMy Life’s Dark Hours — Rilke Organic Edition T-Shirt\u003c\/a\u003e — the full couplet, on organic cotton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"\/products\/dark-hours-rilke-tee\"\u003eMy Life’s Dark Hours — Rilke T-Shirt\u003c\/a\u003e — the full couplet, standard cotton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"\/pages\/rilke-circles\"\u003eExplore “I live my life in circles” →\u003c\/a\u003e — the quote page for the line four poems earlier\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/rilke\"\u003eThe full Rilke collection\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43137055490142,"sku":"5773245_16952","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/My-Lifes-Dark-Hours-Rilke-Journal-view-01.png?v=1786222026"},{"product_id":"my-lifes-dark-hours-rilke-phone-case","title":"My Life’s Dark Hours — Rilke Phone Case","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoem 6 of \u003cem\u003eDas Stunden-Buch\u003c\/em\u003e describes the ordinary day, seen from a late hour, as something already finished and far off — the way an old letter reads. The phone in your hand is where most of us do that now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“I love my life’s dark hours…”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRainer Maria Rilke, \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Hours\u003c\/em\u003e (1905), Book I, poem 6\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e— Jessie Lemont translation, 1918. Public domain.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eContext\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScrolling back through a day at midnight is the modern version of the poem’s move. The events are only hours old and they already belong to someone else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat the poem does with that distance is refuse to treat it as a loss. 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The black covers the entire shell, sides included; the mark itself stays centred on the back, clear of the curve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Case\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDual-layer construction — flexible inner liner inside a hard polycarbonate shell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRaised edges around the screen and camera\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWireless charging compatible with most Qi-enabled devices\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKeep away from prolonged direct sunlight and high-alcohol liquids to preserve the design.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eRainer Maria Rilke, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived 1875–1926 — born in Prague, wrote in German, and spent his working life between Germany, France, Italy and Switzerland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorked in Paris as Auguste Rodin’s secretary in 1905–06; watching a sculptor work changed how he 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