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Tomas Tranströmer

(b. 1931– )

Swedish writer and poet

“We don’t really know it, but we sense it: there is a sister ship to our life which takes a totally different route.”

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source: “The Blue House,” in Selected Poems 1954–1986 (New York: The Ecco Press, 1987), 166.

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“In the middle of life it happens that death comes and takes your measurements. This visit is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit is sewn in silence.”

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source: “Black Postcards,” in Selected Poems 1954–1986 (New York: The Ecco Press, 1987), 168.

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