Poetry Quote by Tomas Tranströmer — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The gentle downward slope gets steeper”

“I wrote so meagerly to you. But what I couldn't write”

“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.”

“do not look for healing”

“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.”

“It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form.”

“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”

“Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.”