Transformation Quotes

“Come, Lady, die to live.”

“I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster”

“But love, first learned in a lady's eyes,Lives not alone immured in the brain;But, with the motion of all elements,Courses as swift as thought in every power,And gives to every power a double power,Above their functions and their offices.”

“To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!”

“Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.”

“Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity”

“Thy dangerous glancesmake women of men;new-born, we are meltinginto nature again.”

“Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.”

“All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they want from the air and the ground. They burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption. The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.”

“I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.”

“Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.”

“So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.”

“Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.”

“The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.”

“Hither rolls the storm of heat;I feel its finer billows beatLike a sea which me infolds;Heat with viewless fingers moulds,Swells, and mellows, and matures,Paints, and flavors, and allures,Bird and brier inly warms,Still enriches and transforms,Gives the reed and lily length,Adds to oak and oxen strength,Transforming what it doth infold,Life out of death, new out of old.”

“Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.”

“The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.”

“What a new face courage puts on everything!”

“My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things.”

“We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.”

“Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.”

“Nature turns all malfaisance to good.”

“War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.”

“For I am he am born to tame you, Kate; and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as other household Kates.”

“Love hath made thee a tame snake”