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For the Living and the Dead Quotes
For the Living and the Dead
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Tomas Tranströmer209 ratings, 3.89 average rating, 19 reviews
For the Living and the Dead Quotes
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“Un día nos libraremos de todo.
Sentiremos el aire de la muerte bajo las alas y seremos más tiernos y más salvajes que aquí.”
― For the Living and the Dead
Sentiremos el aire de la muerte bajo las alas y seremos más tiernos y más salvajes que aquí.”
― For the Living and the Dead
“The Nightingale in Badelunda
In the green midnight at the nightingale’s northern limit. Heavy leaves hang in trance, the deaf cars race toward the neon line. The nightingale’s voice rises without wavering to the side, it is as penetrating as a cockcrow, but beautiful and free of vanity. I was in prison and it visited me. I was sick and it visited me. I didn’t notice it then, but I do now. Time streams down from the sun and the moon and into all the tick-tock-thankful clocks. But right here there is no time. Only the nightingale’s voice, the raw resonant notes that whet the night sky’s gleaming scythe.”
― For the Living and the Dead
In the green midnight at the nightingale’s northern limit. Heavy leaves hang in trance, the deaf cars race toward the neon line. The nightingale’s voice rises without wavering to the side, it is as penetrating as a cockcrow, but beautiful and free of vanity. I was in prison and it visited me. I was sick and it visited me. I didn’t notice it then, but I do now. Time streams down from the sun and the moon and into all the tick-tock-thankful clocks. But right here there is no time. Only the nightingale’s voice, the raw resonant notes that whet the night sky’s gleaming scythe.”
― For the Living and the Dead
“Those who can never exist anywhere except on their façades
those who are never absentminded
those who never open the wrong door and catch a glimpse of the Unidentified One.
Walk past them!”
― For the Living and the Dead
those who are never absentminded
those who never open the wrong door and catch a glimpse of the Unidentified One.
Walk past them!”
― For the Living and the Dead
“An angel with no face embraced me and whispered through my whole body: “Don’t be ashamed of being human, be proud! Inside you vault opens behind vault endlessly. You will never be complete, that’s how it’s meant to be.”
― For the Living and the Dead
― For the Living and the Dead
“It hurts to go through walls, it makes you ill but is necessary. The world is one. But walls . . . And the wall is part of yourself— we know or we don’t know but it’s true for us all except for small children. No walls for them. The clear sky has leaned against the wall. It’s like a prayer to the emptiness. And the emptiness turns its face to us and whispers, “I am not empty, I am open.”
― For the Living and the Dead
― For the Living and the Dead
“At dawn the crowds get our silent planet going with their tramping.
We are all aboard the street. It is packed like the deck of a ferry. Where are we going? Are there enough teacups? We can count ourselves lucky getting aboard this street! It’s a thousand years before the birth of claustrophobia.”
― For the Living and the Dead
We are all aboard the street. It is packed like the deck of a ferry. Where are we going? Are there enough teacups? We can count ourselves lucky getting aboard this street! It’s a thousand years before the birth of claustrophobia.”
― For the Living and the Dead
