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In the middle of life, death comesto take your measurements. The visitis forgotten and life goes on....

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The Deleted World

I wrote so meagerly to you. But what I couldn't write swelled and swelled like an old-fashioned airs...

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The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems

I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings.

Memories Look at Me: A Memoir

Death stoops over me.I'm a problem in chess. Hehas the solution.

It is still beautiful to hear the heart beatbut often the shadow seems more real than the body.

No one decides where I go, least of all myself, though each step is where it must be.

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation,...

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Tomas Tranströmer

Poet

Born: 1931-04-15

Died: 2015-03-26

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.More