Tomas Transtromer
Tomas Transtromer
Tomas Gösta Tranströmerwas 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...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth15 April 1931
CountrySweden
Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.
The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language.
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 towards a miracle, while I invisibly remain standing.