"We always feel younger than we are. I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings. The sum of them is me. The mirror sees only my latest face, while I know all my previous ones."

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Source : Tomas Transtromer (2011). “The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems”, p.249, New Directions Publishing

Tomas Transtromer

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