Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Tomas Tranströmer
Born: April 15, 1931
Died: March 26, 2015 (aged 83)
Bio: Tomas Gösta Tranströmer was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems captured the long Swedish winters, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric beauty of nature.
Known for:
- The Great Enigma (2004)
- The half-finished heaven (2001)
- The Sorrow Gondola (1996)
- Baltics (1974)
- Memories Look at Me: A Memoir (2011)