#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”

“O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.”

“We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.”

“You are an alchemist; make gold of that.”

“Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast! For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.”

“Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open.”

“Your magnificence has made me a wonder. Your charm has taught me the way of love.”

“Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.”

“Love has come to rule and transform; Stay awake, my heart, stay awake.”

“You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky.”

“The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter.”

“Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings.... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full.”

“The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.”

“Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.”

“Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you.”

“Without you the instruments would die. One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss. The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can be myself. Let me feel you enter each limb bone by bone, that what died last night can be whole today. Why live some soberer way, and feel you ebbing out? I won't do it. Either give me enough wine or leave me alone, now that I know how it is to be with you in constant conversation.”

“I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.”

“Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”

“Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living within the ocean.”

“Your legs will get heavy and tired. Then comes a moment of feeling the wings you've grown, lifting.”

“Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.”

“Through love, all pain will turn to medicine.”

“I merged so completely with love, and was so fused,that I became Love and Love became me.”

“The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain dolls from China,which have made men and women weepfor centuries, even those have changed now.What used to be pain is a lovely benchwhere we can rest under the roses.A left hand has become a right.A dark wall, a window.A cushion in a shoe heel,the leader of the community!Now silence. What we sayis poison to someand nourishing to others.What we say is a ripe fig,but not every bird that flieseats figs.”

“Be crumbled.So wild flowers will come up where you are.You have been stony for too many years.Try something different.Surrender.”

“They are the privileged lovers who create a new world with their eyes of fiery passion.”