"The airy sky has taken its place leaning against the wall. It is like a prayer to what is empty And what is empty turns its face to us and whispers: 'I am not empty, I am open'."

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Source : Tomas Transtromer (2017). “The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems”, p.126, Graywolf Press

Tomas Transtromer

#Prayer Quotes #Wall Quotes #Taken Quotes

“If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.”
“I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.”
“The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.”
“As a first baseman, hitting home runs is what's expected of me. But I don't really try to hit home runs.”
“One of the cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience.”
“We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing?”
“There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.”
“I had fun, but I didn't really have anyone i particularly loved except for loving friends. But I have a certain amount of faith that it will come.”

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