Quotes About Transformation

Old weaknesses, previously patched over or compensated for, reemerge in full flower.

The sun sat, in immense fieriness, just above the horizon, the sea, glittering in great swatches of phosphorescent white, waiting to receive it. Then the blazing ball dived and was gone, swallowed in one big gulp by the hungry waters. Amazing how fast, once it got near it, the sun in these latitudes hastened into the sea.

Sending love to a manifestation of fear will cause it to dissipate and disappear.

Grant me an old man's frenzy,Myself must I remakeTill I am Timon and LearOr that William BlakeWho beat upon the wallTill Truth obeyed his call.

Even when the poet seems most himself… he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.

Down the mountain wallsFrom where Pan's cavern isIntolerable music falls.Foul goat-head, brutal arm appear,Belly, shoulder, bum,Flash fishlike; nymphs and satyrsCopulate in the foam.

I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.

Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire.

Whence had they come,The hand and lash that beat down frigid Rome?What sacred drama through her body heavedWhen world-transforming Charlemagne was conceived?

Much did I rage when young,Being by the world oppressed,But now with flattering tongueIt speeds the parting guest.

I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.

All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.

When I had laid it on the floor I went to blow the fire a-flame, But something rustled on the floor, And someone called me by my name: It had become a glimmering girl With apple blossoms in her hair Who called me by my name and ran And faded through the brightening air. . . .

But Love has pitched his mansion in The place of excrement; For nothing can be sole or whole That has not been rent.

Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

the Christian vision is meant to be translated into virtue; the faith that apprehends God's gratuitous forgiveness in Christ must be translated into a radical obedience to him.

How did things get to be this way?

Weep not that the world changes -did it keep a stable changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.

the Kauravas and the Pandavas turned from demi-gods into cave men, the great war reduced to a tribal feud fought with sticks and stones.

Delhi was once a paradise, Where Love held sway and reigned; But its charm lies ravished now And only ruins remain. No

A body of merchants had been transformed into the de facto sovereign rulers of much of northern India. As one contemporary observer put it: 'Through many unexpected contingencies, an incorporated society of private traders [has become] a cabinet of Asiatic princes.'65 The result was what Adam Smith would call 'a strange absurdity' – a Company State.66

Alice for short. A diochronism. (Title of novel)

Life showed itself to me in different colors after I had once read Turgenev; it became more serious, more awful, and with mystical responsibilities I had not known before. My gay American horizons were bathed in the vast melancholy of the Slav, patient, agnostic, trustful.

She had conquered, but she had also necessarily lost much. Perhaps what she had lost was not worth keeping; but at any rate she had lost it.