Quotes About Transformation

DID WE WIN THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION?

Instead of leisure being simply "relaxed activity," it was transformed into an opportunity for increased consumption—even consumption of leisure itself (as in travel and vacations).

It is funny what a year can do.

Remember when you first learned how to swim? In the beginning you struggled mightily to keep your head above water. But then, one day, something amazing happened: You gave up fighting to stay afloat. And when you did, you rose to the surface and floated effortlessly.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Migration is the story of my body

Would you realize what Revolution is, call it Progress; and would you realize what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

No victorious revolution without an idea. Certainly! But just as certainly: It is not the idea which makes a revolution, but privation which causes it to break out. And once under way, it deviates from the idea.

Además, el tiempo se encarga de acabar con las ridiculeces. Es más, se encarga de acabar con todo.

Overnight the Revolution had brought political freedoms never before known in Russia – and hardly ever since.

Learning is, after all, not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning. -Richard Bach

SAP with its sharp fangs was biting everyone in the behind, for our good, we are told

I appreciate many wonderful and brilliant discoveries made by humanity during the years of the Industrial Revolution. Yet, the radical transformation of the human diet was rather destructive.

She switched places with her shadow because suffering changes shape and happens secretly.

Sometimes all I have are words and to write them means they are no longer prayers but are now animals. Other people can hunt them.

To acknowledge death is to acknowledge that we must take another shape.

As I write, more and more of my cells are replaced by language. When they burn a writer's body, the smoke will be shaped llike letters.

My mother, now covered, was no longer my mother. A covered apple is no longer an apple. A sketch of a person isn't the person. Somewhere, in the morning, my mother had become the sketch. And I would spend the rest of my life trying to shade her back in.

Maybe I am staring into a piece of paper like it is a pond, hoping one day that what looks back is not my own reflection, but my great-grandmother's face. Maybe poetry is the distance between my face and her face. Maybe it's the difference between how the moon looks in the sky and how it contorts when a mayfly travels across the pond.

If you saw my poems today, I hope you could see that I heard you even though you couldn't hear me. I have tried to write shorter + shorter + denser + denser + louder + louder poems. They have become so loud that each night I fold them into origamic cigarettes and smoke them so they'll blow away.