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> [“No one decides where I go, least of all myself, though each step is where it must be.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tomas-transtromer/no-one-decides-where-i-go-least-of-all-myself-though-each-step-is/)

[Tomas Transtromer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tomas-transtromer/)

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## More by Tomas Transtromer

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tomas-transtromer/a-ship-s-engine-far-away-on-the-water-expands-the-summer-night/)

[Tomas Transtromer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tomas-transtromer/)

> [It is still beautiful to hear the heart beat but often the shadow seems more real than the body.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tomas-transtromer/it-is-still-beautiful-to-hear-the-heart-beat-but-often-the-shadow/)

[Tomas Transtromer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tomas-transtromer/)

> [I am carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tomas-transtromer/i-am-carried-in-my-shadow-like-a-violin-in-its-black-case/)

[Tomas Transtromer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tomas-transtromer/)

> [“Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tomas-transtromer/thank-you-for-this-life-still-i-miss-the-alternatives/)

[Tomas Tranströmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tomas-transtromer/)

> [We always feel younger than we are. I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings. The sum of them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tomas-transtromer/we-always-feel-younger-than-we-are-i-carry-inside-myself-my-earlier/)

[Tomas Transtromer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tomas-transtromer/)

> [A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tomas-transtromer/a-person-shows-himself-for-an-instant-as-in-a-photograph-but-clearer/)

[Tomas Transtromer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tomas-transtromer/)

> [I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tomas-transtromer/i-am-still-the-place-where-creation-does-some-work-on-itself/)

[Tomas Transtromer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tomas-transtromer/)

> [I walk slowly into myself, through a forest of empty suits of armor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tomas-transtromer/i-walk-slowly-into-myself-through-a-forest-of-empty-suits-of-armor/)

[Tomas Transtromer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tomas-transtromer/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tomas-transtromer/every-abstract-picture-of-the-world-is-as-impossible-as-a-blueprint/)

[Tomas Transtromer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tomas-transtromer/)

> [“Jag som älskar att ströva och försvinna i mängden, en bokstav T i den oändliga textmassan.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tomas-transtromer/jag-som-lskar-att-str-va-och-f-rsvinna-i-m-ngden-en-bokstav-t-i-den-o/)

[Tomas Tranströmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tomas-transtromer/)

> [Sometimes my life opened its eyes in the dark. A feeling as if crowds drew through the streets in blindness and anxiety on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tomas-transtromer/sometimes-my-life-opened-its-eyes-in-the-dark-a-feeling-as-if-crowds/)

[Tomas Transtromer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tomas-transtromer/)

> [In the middle of life, death comes to take your measurements. The visit is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit is being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tomas-transtromer/in-the-middle-of-life-death-comes-to-take-your-measurements-the-visit/)

[Tomas Transtromer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tomas-transtromer/)

> [“The gentle downward slope gets steeper and imperceptibly becomes an abyss.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tomas-transtromer/the-gentle-downward-slope-gets-steeper-and-imperceptibly-becomes-an/)

[Tomas Tranströmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tomas-transtromer/)

> [“Every person is a half-opened door leading to a room for everyone.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tomas-transtromer/every-person-is-a-half-opened-door-leading-to-a-room-for-everyone/)

[Tomas Transtromer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tomas-transtromer/)

> [“I wrote so meagerly to you. But what I couldn't write swelled and swelled like an old-fashioned airship and drifted away at last through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tomas-transtromer/i-wrote-so-meagerly-to-you-but-what-i-couldn-t-write-swelled-and/)

[Tomas Tranströmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tomas-transtromer/)

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