Quotes About Metamorphosis

Before I came to New York I lived here, in this mausoleum. I was nothing. I was dead. When I came to New York it was like a veil lifting. For the first time I felt I was alive, breathing.

Love changes and changes. Then it changes again. . .

first book There are seven of them, haikus mostly but rhyming ones, too. Not enough for a real book until I cut each page into a small square staple the squares together, write one poem on each page. Butterflies by Jacqueline Woodson on the front. The butterfly book complete now.

involution always precedes evolution

Whenever the humble sense of human thought's essential reform-ability is not understood, a metamorphosis is ushered in: philosophy becomes ideology. And this metamorphosis is realized to the extent to which it can be considered "normal" to impose a certain conception of life. It is in this way that the violence of power makes its appearance.

Do you recognize perhaps, also you, now, that a minute ago you were another?

Life shifting, as life does

E vendo que a libélula enveredava por entre os juncos, ficou pensando que mais importante do que nascer é ressuscitar.

Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them.

And what better than a butterfly—a symbol of metamorphosis and endurance. Butterflies prove that change is a beautiful thing.

You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

Transformation touched only bodies, not minds.

I lay on the dirt, weeping. Those flowers had made him his true being, which was blue, and finned, and not mine. I thought I would die of such pain, which was not like the sinking numbness Aeëtes had left behind, but sharp and fierce as a blade through my chest. But of course I could not die. I would live on, through each scalding moment to the next. This is the grief that makes our kind choose to be stones and trees rather than flesh.

The years have simply reconciled us to the fact that we are all here for the transformation.

because in the Dissolving, the fire should be light always, in the Sublimation mean, in the Coagulation temperate, continual in the Whitening, and strong in the Rubification.

He is the same, but everything is different.

From shadows and symbols into the truth.

In a higher world it is otherwise; but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. I

As Garp put it, 'You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.' Even if these so-called endings and beginnings are illusions.

Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.

Transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it.

Because the truth is, it doesnt really matter who I used to be. Its all about who Ive become.

A butterfly is incapable of flight until the struggle to free himself from his cocoon has given his wings the strength he needs; the hardest you've ever struggled is the strongest you'll ever be.

Life is a process of becoming. A combination of states we have to go through.