Quotes About Transformation

Without Contraries is no Progression.

We become what we behold.

Every harlot was a virgin once

The cut worm forgives the plow.

The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.

Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.

Los Sexos nacidos del Orgullo y la Vergüenza florecieron en la mañana y en la noche murieron; mas la Piedad cambió la Muerte en Sueño; los Sexos se irguieron para obrar y llorar.

El camino del exceso conduce al palacio de la sabiduría.

Roses are planted where thorns grow, and on the barren heath sing the honey bees.

Nothing stands still. Things are either...

A new music is a new mind.

A house is sometimes wine. It is sometimes more than a skin.

There is no thing that with a twist of the imagination cannot be something else. Porpoises risen in a green sea, the wind at nightfall bending the rose- red grasses and you- in your apron hurrying to catch- say it seems to you to be your son. How ridiculous! You will pass up into a cloud and look back at me, not count the scribbling foolish that put wings at your heels, at your knees.

The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together.

Shoes twisted into incredible lilies.

Clean is he alone after whom stream the broken pieces of the city— flying apart at his approaches

Unleashed! Alone, watching the May moon above the trees . At nine o'clock the park closes. You must be out of the lake, dressed, in your cars and going: they change into their street clothes in the back seats and move out among the trees . The "great beast" all removed before the plunging night, the crickets' black wings and hylas wake .

The same things exist, but in a different condition when energized by the imagination.

India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.

It surged up out of the water and stood for an instant upright upon that surging and heaving desolation like Christ.

Ellen was in her late thirties, plump, her face unblemished still. It was as though whatever marks being in the world had left upon it up to the time the aunt vanished had been removed from between the skeleton and the skin, between the sum of experience and the envelope in which it resides, by intervening years of annealing and untroubled flesh.

Después todos hablaron de lo que harían con veinticinco dólares. Todos hablaban a la vez, insistentes y contradictorias sus voces, convirtiendo lo irreal en posible, luego en probable, después en hecho incontrovertible, como hace la gente al trasnformar sus deseos en palabras.