Tomas Transtromer quotes
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“I am carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case”
-- Tomas TranstromerSource : Tomas Transtromer (2011). “The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems”, p.199, New Directions Publishing
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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.”
-- Tomas TranstromerSource : Tomas Transtromer (2011). “The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems”, p.249, New Directions Publishing
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“It is still beautiful to hear the heart beat but often the shadow seems more real than the body.”
-- Tomas TranstromerSource : Tomas Transtromer (2017). “The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems”, p.59, Graywolf Press
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“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.”
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“A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.”
-- Tomas TranstromerSource : "Following Words Through a Labyrinth" by David Orr, www.nytimes.com. October 6, 2011.
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“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 TranstromerSource : Tomas Transtromer (2014). “The Deleted World: Poems”, p.31, Macmillan
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“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.”
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“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.”
-- Tomas TranstromerSource : "Swedish Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer dies aged 83" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2015.
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“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'.”
-- Tomas TranstromerSource : Tomas Transtromer (2017). “The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems”, p.126, Graywolf Press
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“I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.”
-- Tomas Transtromer
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