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Tomas Tranströmer

“But every person has their own encyclopedia written, which grows out from each soul, composed from birth onward, hundreds of thousands of pages pressing into each other and yet there’s air between them! Like trembling leaves in a forest. A book of contradictions. What’s in there is revised by the moment; the images touch themselves up, the words flicker. A wave washes through the entire text, followed by the next wave, and the next . . .”

Tomas Tranströmer, The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems
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The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems by Tomas Tranströmer
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