Tomas Transtromer Quotes

Tomas Transtromer — Swedish Writer born on April 15, 1931,

Tomas Gösta Tranströmer was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems captured the long Swedish winters, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric beauty of nature. Tranströmer's work is also characterized by a sense of mystery and wonder underlying the routine of everyday life, a quality which often gives his poems a religious dimension. He has been described as a Christian poet... (wikipedia)

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 towards a miracle, while I invisibly remain standing.

I walk slowly into myself, through a forest of empty suits of armor.

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 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.