{"product_id":"life-in-circles-rilke-quote-tumbler","title":"Life in Circles — Rilke Quote Tumbler","description":"\u003cp\u003eA tumbler featuring Rainer Maria Rilke's \"I live my life in circles that grow wide and endlessly unroll...\" from The Book of Hours (1905). Literary objects by Quoteiac.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome things are best understood by returning to them. This tumbler is for the person who already knows that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA quote tumbler 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 objects by Quoteiac.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \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 the way a river finds its course — not by deciding but by returning, again and again, to the same terrain until the channel deepens. Between 1899 and 1903, he came back to it in three separate bursts of writing. He didn’t plan the expansion. He circled until it happened. The translation on this tumbler is Jessie Lemont’s 1918 version — the first English rendering of the poem, made public domain the same year Rilke’s influenza turned fatal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhatever you’re drinking while you think — this is the vessel for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe warm burnished arcs radiating outward from the quote aren’t decorative flourishes — they are the argument. Concentric curves that break off before completing, suggesting a circle that keeps opening rather than closing. Where a full ring would contain, these arcs expand. The quote runs through the center of that outward motion, text on black, the horizon always slightly further out than you last measured it. Every time you pick this up, the circles are still moving.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead the full story behind this quote: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/blogs\/journal\/rilke-book-of-hours-life-in-circles\"\u003eRainer Maria Rilke and the Life That Moves in Circles\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/life-in-circles-rilke-book-of-hours-t-shirt\"\u003eLife in Circles — Rilke T-Shirt\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/life-in-circles-rilke-organic-edition-t-shirt\"\u003eLife in Circles — Rilke Organic Tee\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/rilke-life-in-circles-phone-case\"\u003eLife in Circles — Rilke Phone Case\u003c\/a\u003e. More Rilke on the site: browse the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/collections\/rilke\"\u003efull Rilke collection\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Tumbler\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e20 oz stainless steel — substantial enough to stay cold for hours, light enough to carry all day\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMatte black finish — the design holds clean on the dark ground\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLid and metal straw included\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHand-wash only — not dishwasher or microwave safe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It’s For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe person who thinks better with something in their hands. The one for whom a line of poetry isn’t ambient decoration but an actual anchor. 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\u003ch3\u003eRainer Maria Rilke, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1875–1926, Prague to Paris to a stone tower in Muzot, Switzerland — where he finally finished the \u003cem\u003eDuino Elegies\u003c\/em\u003e in a single week in 1922, after a decade of silence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRefused psychoanalysis when Lou Andreas-Salomé suggested it — convinced that dissolving his neuroses would dissolve his poetry along with them\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWrote \u003cem\u003eLetters to a Young Poet\u003c\/em\u003e in 1903, the same year he completed \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Hours\u003c\/em\u003e — letters to a stranger that became the most circulated advice about creative life in the twentieth century\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDied from complications of a rose thorn scratch; the romanticized version says it happened while he was cutting flowers for a visitor\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\n\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\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","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","url":"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/life-in-circles-rilke-quote-tumbler","provider":"Quoteiac","version":"1.0","type":"link"}