{"product_id":"life-in-circles-rilke-book-of-hours-t-shirt","title":"Life in Circles — Rilke Book of Hours T-Shirt","description":"\u003cp\u003eA literary quote t-shirt featuring Rainer Maria Rilke's \"I live my life in circles that grow wide and endlessly unroll.\" from \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Hours\u003c\/em\u003e, 1905 (tr. Jessie Lemont, 1918). Literary apparel by Quoteiac.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRainer Maria Rilke\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"I live my life in circles that grow wide and endlessly unroll.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRilke wrote \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Hours\u003c\/em\u003e between 1899 and 1903, in a series of private sessions he described as near-automatic — poems that arrived whole, as if dictated. He was in his mid-twenties, had just returned from Russia, transformed in equal measure by the landscape and by Tolstoy, whom he visited twice. The book is addressed to God, but reads more like a conversation with whatever force is larger than the self.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis line is its motion — not a destination, not a resolution. Just the shape of a life that keeps moving outward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou're not the person who needs the path to be straight before they'll walk it. You're the one who understands that circles growing wide isn't being lost — it's expanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you've ever:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCome back to the same question years later and found you could finally hold it differently\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFelt the shape of your life as something that spirals rather than advances\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKnown that the point isn't arrival — it's the widening\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConcentric arcs sweep across the shirt — not a complete circle, but the suggestion of one in motion, expanding past the edges of the fabric. The quote runs through the center of that motion. The arcs are warm burnished against the black — the same tone as found metal or aged brass, nothing shiny about it. The design doesn't illustrate the poem. It enacts it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/life-in-circles-rilke-organic-tee\"\u003eLife in Circles — Rilke Organic Edition Tee\u003c\/a\u003e — same design, 100% organic ring-spun cotton. Browse the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/collections\/rilke\"\u003efull Rilke collection\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Tee\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e100% combed and ring-spun cotton — soft, mid-weight, built for daily wear\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnisex relaxed fit — true to size; size up if between sizes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCrew neck, short sleeve\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 person who reads poetry not to escape but to locate themselves. The one who has lived enough circles to recognize the pattern. Anyone who finds more truth in motion than in arrival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWear the orbit.\u003c\/strong\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 — one of the few poets whose work survives translation well enough to matter in any language\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpent much of his adult life in voluntary wandering — Russia, Paris, Duino Castle on the Adriatic — convinced that rootlessness was the condition his work required\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Book of Hours\u003c\/em\u003e (1905) was written in white heat over three separate sessions; Rilke described the poems as arriving complete, like dictation from somewhere he couldn't name\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDied at 51 from leukemia — pricked by a rose thorn, according to the legend, which is almost certainly not how it happened but which Rilke would have approved of as a story\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\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":42756653023326,"sku":"5965485_9527","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"S","offer_id":42756653056094,"sku":"5965485_4016","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":42756653088862,"sku":"5965485_4017","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":42756653121630,"sku":"5965485_4018","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":42756653154398,"sku":"5965485_4019","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2XL","offer_id":42756653187166,"sku":"5965485_4020","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/Life_in_Circles_Rainer_Maria_Rilke.png?v=1778555776","url":"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/life-in-circles-rilke-book-of-hours-t-shirt","provider":"Quoteiac","version":"1.0","type":"link"}