Quotes About Transformation

Peut-on s'extasier dans la destruction, se rajeunir par la cruauté !

Le poète est vraiment voleur de feu.

The white men are landing. Cannons! Now we must be baptized, get dressed, and go to work. My heart has been stabbed by grace. Ah! I hadn't thought this would happen!

The world progresses! Why shouldn't it turn as well?

Delivered to oblivion...growing and flowering with incense and weeds to the sullen whine of nasty flies...I loved deserts, burned out orchards, faded boutiques...I dragged myself down stinking alleyways...General, if there's an old canon left, aim for the glass of splendid shops, into the living rooms...make the city eat its own dust.

Y si un trozo de madera descubre que es un violín?

Debilidad o fuerza. No sabes a dónde vas ni por qué vas, entra en todas partes, responde a todo. Como si fueras un cadáver ya no te podrán matar.» A la mañana tenía una mirada tan extraviada y un aspecto tan muerto que aquellos que encontré quizá no me hayan visto.

moja ojczyzna powstaje!... Wol? j? ogl?da? siedz?c?... [Pi?tnastoletni Arthur Rimbaud w li?cie do Georgesa Izambard z 25 sierpnia 1870]

Arthur Rimbaud

What was I in the century past: I only find myself today. The vagabonds, the hazy wars are gone. The inferior race has swept over all - the People, as they put it, Reason; Nation and Science.

I shall gash myself all over. I shall tattoo myself. I want to become as hideous as a Mongol. You'll see, I'll go screaming through the streets.

Da cane bastonato, si era di nuovo trasformato in un uomo condannato a percepire le bastonate non come dolore fisico, ma come profonda vergogna.

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.

Life is a constant process of dying.

Arthur Scott Bailey

But I do know you need to clear out the old to make way for the new. See, isn't that a wise saying? Won't I make a good and clever king? I'm fit for the role.

The cross must work in us if the life is to be centered in God. Only so can our spiritual motivation be radically altered and become Christward instead of selfward. "He died for all, that they which live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him" (2 Cor. 5:15, RV).

Mourning over personal sin and failure is an indispensable stage in the process of sanctification, and it is facilitated by fasting.

There is always the hope that spiritual forces will be released which will work toward repentance and recovery.

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years lease of a garden and he will turn it into a desert.

El 326 tenía por delante menos futuro que María Antonieta la mañana que le cortaron el pelo en la Conciergerie.