Aug 22, 2022
Tomas Tranströmer, from “Black Postcards″, The Deleted World: Poems (versions by Robin Robertson, bilingual ed.) [transcript in ALT]
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Tomas Tranströmer, from “Black Postcards″, The Deleted World: Poems (versions by Robin Robertson, bilingual ed.) [transcript in ALT]
Was it here,
Here, that paradise was revealed
For one brief moment
On a night in midsummer?
Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings
We should sleep on nine midsummer flowers tonight and then our dreams would come true.
August Strindberg, Miss Julie
When you have easterbreak but you go to IB and you have your IOP in Swedish directly after the break so you need to study
Deep down inside her in fact is an animal gnawing away with its pointed teeth, and she has it shut away in a little box; but already she can see its fang through the fragile wall. So she quickly puts the box inside a slightly larger one, but the animal keeps gnawing away and so she goes and fetches a carton and then a bigger one and then a bigger one still, and every time she has the same childish feeling of happiness and the same sensation of staring into an abyss when fear rubs up against her.
Stig Dagerman, The Snake (trans. Laurie Thompson)
Tomas Tranströmer, “Midwinter″, The Deleted World: Poems (versions by Robin Robertson, bilingual ed.) [transcript in ALT]
Sick of those who come with words, words but no language.
Tomas Tranströmer, “From March 1979″, The Deleted World: Poems (versions by Robin Robertson, bilingual ed.)
August 2nd. Something wants to be said but the words don't agree.
Tomas Tranströmer, from “Baltics”, The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems (trans. Robin Fulton)