"I am that very place where creation works upon itself."

— Thomas Tranströmer

When Thomas Tranströmer received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011, people in the media seemed to compete over their favourite Tranströmer quotation.

Apparently, I have intellectual ambitions too. I decided I ought to have a favourite quote of my own.

At first, I couldn't find one.

Then I came across the line above.

I stopped.

Why?

I'm still not entirely sure.

Perhaps because, in a single sentence, it lets me see myself as both an individual being and, at the same time, part of something much bigger.

I don't know whether Thomas intended that meaning.

I only know that this morning, it spoke to me.