Sunday, October 19, 2014

Thought for the Day

And what is empty turns its face to us /
and whispers:
"I am not empty, I am open."
~ Tomas Transtromer
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Quoted from "Vermeer" in The Half-Finished Heaven: The Best Poems of Tomas Transtromer, Selected and Translated from the Swedish by Robert Bly (Graywolf Press, 2001)

Tomas Transtromer, Swedish Poet, Writer, Translator, Winner of 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature

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