Quote of the day
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
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)