Tomas Transtromer Quotes

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  • We always feel younger than we are. I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings. The sum of them is me. The mirror sees only my latest face, while I know all my previous ones.

    Mirrors   Tree   Faces  
    Tomas Transtromer (2011). “The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems”, p.249, New Directions Publishing
  • Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that's as it should be.

    Storm   World   Proud  
    "Swedish Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer dies aged 83" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2015.
  • The airy sky has taken its place leaning against the wall. It is like a prayer to what is empty And what is empty turns its face to us and whispers: 'I am not empty, I am open'.

    Prayer   Wall   Taken  
    Tomas Transtromer (2017). “The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems”, p.126, Graywolf Press
  • It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real.

  • A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.

    Summer   Night   Knowing  
  • I am carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case

    Black   Shadow   Violin  
    Tomas Transtromer (2011). “The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems”, p.199, New Directions Publishing
  • I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.

    Doe   Creation   Stills  
  • It is still beautiful to hear the heart beat but often the shadow seems more real than the body.

    Beautiful   Real   Heart  
    Tomas Transtromer (2017). “The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems”, p.59, Graywolf Press
  • In the middle of life, death comes to take your measurements. The visit is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit is being sewn on the sly.

    Tomas Transtromer (2014). “The Deleted World: Poems”, p.31, Macmillan
  • A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.

    "Following Words Through a Labyrinth" by David Orr, www.nytimes.com. October 6, 2011.
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