Tomas Transtromer Quotes

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.

There is more that meets the eye, I see the soul that is inside.

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

People will always show their true selves in the end.

Nobody really knows who I am, where I came from, what's in my heart, why I believe in the things I believe, what I see behind the scenes and they don't see.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

We cannot see but a small depth into the heart of man, and can only discover the work of his tongue.

When you look at people, you should look at more than what you see on the surface; you should try to find a soul.

We are the shadow of Sirius. There is the other side of - as we talk to each other, we see the light, and we see these faces, but we know that behind that, there's the other side, which we never know. And that - it's the dark, the unknown side that guides us, and that is part of our lives all the time. It's the mystery.

You don't ask about what can be seen.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.

The work of a man is the explanation of the man.

Reality of things is hidden in the realm of the unseen

We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.

We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside.

A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.

I don't want to just see someone's face; I want to know his shadow, too. —Jude

The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.

The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us.

As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.

No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are all Face Dancers in our souls.