Quotes About Metamorphosis

I feel the thinness of me, the littleness of me, and the vastness and the weirdness of me. I become the darkness all around, I become the night. Tomorrow I will be a different Davie, and I will be the day.

It had forced him into being a different person, as though a stranger's personality and attendant quirks had been superimposed over his own. But now the stranger's footprint was Decker. I am now the stranger. I'm a stranger in my own body.

silhouette transformed into a man with wide

We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and are changed. —Frank Bidart, "Borges and I

My drops of tears I'll turn to sparks of fire.

Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.

But doth must suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.

Love can transpose to form and dignity.

Melt Egypt into Nile!

he hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age; doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion:

According to Monica, the nanny, she said, "I've got him." The head on the lap would over time somehow metamorphosize into my molesting her in the attic, but that reenactment of Dory Previn's song scenario would come later.

I knelt a mortal; I rose an immortal.

can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

Everything changes into something else, turns into some version of what it was before.

The world exploded into billions of atoms, and when it rearranged itself, it may have looked the same, but really, it was a Whole New World.

When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.

Vê, meu amor, vê como por medo já estou organizando, vê como ainda não consigo mexer nesses elementos primários do laboratório sem logo querer organizar a esperança. (...) É uma metamorfose em que perco tudo o k tinha, e o que eu tinha era eu - só tenho o k sou. E agora o que sou? Sou: estar de pé diante de um susto. (...) Não entendo e tenho medo de entender, o material do mundo me assusta, com os seus planetas e baratas.

Transfiguro la realidad y entonces otra realidad soñadora y noctámbula me crea.

Pela primeira vez na vida eu teria o que sempre quisera: ia ser outra que não eu mesma.

It was like my whole life suddenly went from black and white to glorious Technicolor

Ya no se trataba de volver de un viaje concluido al lugar de partida, tenía la sensación de que no volvería nunca a ser quien había sido.

He changed sunset into sunrise.