The Half-Finished Heaven Quotes

“You drank some darkness
and became visible.”
― Tomas Tranströmer, The Half-Finished Heaven

“The storm puts its lips to the house and blows to make a sound.”
― Tomas Tranströmer, The Half-Finished Heaven

“We got ready and showed our home. The visitor thought: you live well. The slum must be inside you.”
― Tomas Tranströmer, The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems

“One artist said: when younger I was a planet
with its own dense atmosphere.
The descending rays of light broke into rainbows.
Constant thunderstorms raged inside...

Now I am extinct and dry and opened.
I lack a certain childlike energy.
I have a hot and cold side.

But no rainbows.”
― Tomas Tranströmer, The Half-Finished Heaven

“A more serious storm is moving over us all. It puts its lips to our soul and blows to make a sound. We’re afraid the storm will blow everything inside us away.”
― Tomas Tranströmer, The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems

“(where all the died-away footsteps are lying like sunken leaves in a pond)”
― Tomas Tranströmer, The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems

“and the house senses the constellation of nails holding its walls together.”
― Tomas Tranströmer, The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems

“It was Rilke who created the metaphor that poets are “bees of the invisible.” Making honey of the invisible suggests that the artist remains close to his own earthly history, but moves as well toward the spiritual and the invisible.”
― Tomas Tranströmer, The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems