Tomas Transtromer Quotes
- 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,…
- A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.
- I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.
- 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,…
- 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,…
- 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…
- I am carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case
- 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…
- It is still beautiful to hear the heart beat but often the shadow seems more real than the body.
- I walk slowly into myself, through a forest of empty suits of armor.
- Sometimes my life opened its eyes in the dark. A feeling as if crowds drew through the streets in blindness and anxiety on the way…
- The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language.