Instead of a homeland I hold the metamorphoses of the world.

“Nobody really metamorphoses. Cinderella is always Cinderella, just in a nicer dress. The Ugly Duckling was always a swan, just a smaller version. And…

— Holly Smale

“To have a solid foundation of skepticism, -that is to say, the faculty of changing at any moment, of turning back, of facing successively…

— Remy de Gourmont

“There is a place at the centre of the World, between the zones of earth, sea, and sky, at the boundary of the three…

— Ovid

“Nothing is ever lost as time passes, it merely metamorphoses into something as wonderful or, in some cases, into something even better than before.”

— Carole Carlton

“My soul would sing of metamorphoses. But since, o gods, you were the source of these bodies becoming other bodies, breathe your breath into…

— Ovid

“For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived to be extraordinary, charming,…

— Hermann Hesse

“Embryo minds, like embryo bodies, pass through a number of strange metamorphoses before they adopt their final shape.”

— Samuel Butler

“We ate the birds. We ate them. We wanted their songs to flow up through our throats and burst out of our mouths, and…

— Margaret Atwood

For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.

— John Cheever

Autumn is the very soul of metamorphosis, a time when the world is poised at the door of winter - which is the door…

— Catherynne M. Valente

It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all…

— Henry Miller

Most animals are like the unfortunate Gregor Samsa after metamorphosis. They are Kafka-creatures, organisms with rich thoughts and emotions but no system for translating…

— Marc Hauser

You've got to be like a butterfly and have a metamorphosis.

— Mike Markkula

“Svako živi iza rešetaka koje nosi sa sobom. Zato se sada tako mnogo piše o životinjama. To je izraz čežnje za slobodnim, prirodnim životom.…

— Gustav Janouch

We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the…

— Terence McKenna