Tomas Tranströmer

“In the middle of life, death comes”

“I was, however, more interested in steam engines than in electric ones. In other words, I was more romantic than technical.”

“The scientific method I was closest to was the Linnaean: discover, collect, examine.”

“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.”

“My total experience of school was mixed, with more darkness than light. Just as my image of society has become.”

“Above ground,to the beat of invisible pistons.”

“I wrote so meagerly to you. But what I couldn't write”

“In the middle of life, death comes”