#TomasTranstromer
February 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Awarded the Nobel Prize in #Literature 2011, "because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality."

✒️ #TomasTranströmer, Swedish poet, was #BOTD 15 April 1931. #Poetry #Literature

Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/tomas-...
April 15, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Deep in the forest there’s an unexpected clearing that can be reached only by someone who has lost his way.

- #TomasTranstromer, ‘The Clearing’
October 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Fantastic to feel how my poem grows while I myself shrink. It is growing, it takes my place. It pushes me out of its way.

- #TomasTranstromer
November 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
“Don’t be ashamed because you’re human,
Be proud!
Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly.
You will never be finished, and that’s as it should be."

– #TomasTranströmer, 'Romanesque Arches'
March 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
ROMANESQUE ARCHES
By #TomasTranströmer, tr. #RobinFulton

Inside the huge #Romanesque church the tourists jostled in the half darkness.
Vault gaped behind vault, no complete view.
A few candle flames flickered.
An angel with no face embraced me
and whispered through my whole body:
March 29, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Born #OnThisDay 1931, Tomas Tranströmer, Nobel Prize laureate, gifted us with startlingly precise images of the soul.

"I am carried in my shadow / like a violin in its black case."

Remembering his profound contribution to #Poetry. #TomasTranstromer #NobelPrize #Literature
April 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Today is Tomas Tranströmer's Birthday. He is one of my favorite poets. This is "The Half-Finished Heaven" complete with my notes from a class in grad school. #TomasTranstromer #Poetry #Authors #WritingCommunity #POETRY #Birthday #Poets
April 15, 2024 at 6:26 PM
Your #existential PSA for the day, courtesy of #TomasTranströmer
March 29, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Op weg naar een weekend met vertaalde #poëzie; vandaag nog een keer uit de bundel 'Alfabet op de rug gezien', samengesteld door J.Bernlef: gedichten van #TomasTranströmer.
November 15, 2024 at 8:38 AM
"The Stones" and "The Station", Tomas Tranströmer
Translation by Robin Fulton
Kitty Inkpot x Soe and Soe - Misty Fairy Forest
Wearingeul nobile note (page) and Tomoe River (Hobonichi a5)
Pelikan M400 white tortiseshell

#poetry #tomastranströmer #swedishliterature #fountainpensandink
October 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Awarded the Nobel Prize in #Literature 2011, "because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality."

✒️ #TomasTranströmer, Swedish poet, was #BOTD 15 April 1931. #Poetry #Literature

Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/tomas-...
April 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Your #existential PSA for tbe day, courtesy of #TomasTranströmer:
April 2, 2026 at 7:21 AM
Tired of all who come with words, words but no language
I went to the snow-covered island
The wild does not have words
The unwritten pages spread themselves out in all directions!
I come across the marks of roe-deer’s hooves in the snow.
Language, but no words.

- #TomasTranströmer
May 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
THE HALF-FINISHED HEAVEN
By #TomasTranströmer, tr. #RobertBly

Cowardice breaks off on its path.
Anguish breaks off on its path.
The vulture breaks off in its flight.

The eager light runs into the open,
Even the ghosts take a drink.

And our paintings see the air,
red beasts of the ice-age studios.
January 18, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Två pojkar sparkar boll i skymningen.
En svärm av snabba ekon. - Plötsligt stjärnklart.

#tranströmer #tomastranströmer
November 22, 2024 at 4:03 AM
Every problem cries in its own language.

- #TomasTranströmer
June 11, 2026 at 8:55 PM
THE OUTPOST
By #TomasTranströmer, tr. Robin Fulton

I’m ordered out to a heap of stones
like a distinguished corpse from the Iron Age.
The others are back in the tent sleeping
stretched out like spokes in a wheel.
July 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Mission: to be where I am.
Even in that ridiculous, deadly serious
role — I am the place
where creation is working itself out.

- #TomasTranstromer, 'The Outpost'
July 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
ROMANESQUE ARCHES
By #TomasTranströmer, tr. Robin Fulton

Inside the huge Romanesque church the tourists jostled in the half darkness.
Vault gaped behind vault, no complete view.
A few candle flames flickered.
March 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM