Tomas Tranströmer

thumb|right|Tomas Tranströmer in 2008 Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (Swedish pronunciation: [¹tʊmːas ²jœsːta ²trɑːnˌstrœmːɛr]; 15 April 1931 – 26 March 2015) was a Swedish writer, poet, translator and recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature. Quotes För levande och döda (For the Living and the Dead) 1996 Translated by Joanna Bankier, Robert Bly, Samuel Charters, Robin Fulton, and Malena Morling I was, however, more interested in steam engines than in electric ones. In other words, I was more romantic than technical. 29. The scientific method I was closest to was the Linnaean: discover, collect, examine. 30. 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. 40. My total experience of school was mixed, with more darkness than light. Just as my image of society has become. 42. As when you were a child and some tremendous hurtWas pulled over your head like a sack-Glints of sunshine through the meshAnd the hum of the cherry trees.But it doesn’t help, the great hurtCovers head and torso and kneesAnd though you are able to move sometimesSpring brings no happiness.Yes, shimmering wool cap, pull it down over your faceStare through the mesh.Out on the bay, the rings of water multiply soundlesslyGreen leaves darken the earth. As When You Were a Child. Selected Poems, Edited by Robert Hass, 1987 Harpercollins Above ground,in tropical flood, earth's greenerystands with lifted arms, as if listeningto the beat of invisible pistons. p. 3. External links Category:Nobel laureates from Sweden Category:Poets from Sweden Category:Translators from Sweden Category:Nobel laureates in Literature Category:People from Stockholm Category:1931 births Category:2015 deaths