The Sorrow Gondola Quotes

“Oak trees and the moon. Light. Silent constellations. And the cold ocean.”
― Tomas Tranströmer, The Sorrow Gondola

“The sun is low now. Our shadows are giants. Soon all will be shadow”
― Tomas Tranströmer, The Sorrow Gondola

“The power lines stretched across the kingdom of frost north of all music.”
― Tomas Tranströmer, The Sorrow Gondola

“The knight and his lady turned to stone but happy on a flying coffin-lid outside time.”
― Tomas Tranströmer, The Sorrow Gondola

“I am no longer so fond of making journeys. But the journey visits me. Now when I am more and more pushed into a corner, when the annual growth rings multiply, when I need reading glasses. Always there is much more happening than we can bear. There is nothing to be surprised at.”
― Tomas Tranströmer, The Sorrow Gondola

“The sun emerges around the house, stands in the middle of the road and breathes on us with its red blast. Innsbrück I must leave you. But tomorrow there will be a glowing sun in the half-dead grey forest where we have to work and live.”
― Tomas Tranströmer, The Sorrow Gondola

“April and Silence Spring lies desolate. The velvet-dark ditch crawls by my side without reflections. The only thing that shines is yellow flowers. I am carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case. The only thing I want to say glitters out of reach like the silver in a pawnbroker’s.”
― Tomas Tranströmer, The Sorrow Gondola