A final interview …

… The Poet on His Island ‹ Literary Hub. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

“I think a transition from a basic religious consciousness to faith [occurred],” Monica explains. “And it had to do with the music.”
Intriguingly, of all Tranströmer’s poems, the one that deals most directly with faith is also about music, “Schubertiana.” “So much we have to trust,” Tranströmer writes in the poem, “simply to live through our daily day without / sinking through the earth!"