Snippets from Tranströmer (Tranströmer)

Deep in the forest there's an unexpected clearing that can be reached only by someone who has lost his way.

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I'm surrounded by written signs I can't interpret. I'm totally illiterate.
But I've paid what I should and I have receipts for everything.
I've accumulated so many illegible receipts.

Tomas Tranströmer, from The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems