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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 Tranströmer
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 Tranströmer
I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.
Tomas Tranströmer
The scientific method I was closest to was the Linnaean: discover, collect, examine.
Tomas Tranströmer
My total experience of school was mixed, with more darkness than light. Just as my image of society has become.
Tomas Tranströmer
As when you were a child and some tremendous hurt Was pulled over your head like a sack- Glints of sunshine through the mesh And the hum of the cherry trees. But it doesn't help, the great hurt Covers head and torso and knees And though you are able to move sometimes Spring brings no happiness. Yes, shimmering wool cap, pull it down over your face Stare through the mesh. Out on the bay, the rings of water multiply soundlessly Green leaves darken the earth.
Tomas Tranströmer
I walk slowly into myself, through a forest of empty suits of armor.
Tomas Tranströmer
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.
Tomas Tranströmer
Above ground, in tropical flood, earth's greenery stands with lifted arms, as if listening to the beat of invisible pistons.
Tomas Tranströmer
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 Tranströmer
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.
Tomas Tranströmer
The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language.
Tomas Tranströmer
I am carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case.
Tomas Tranströmer