Sophie's hard first question to the cards had not, precisely, gone without an answer, it had been transmuted into questions about the question. It had branched and rooted like a tree, growing questions like buds, and then at some moment all the questions had become one question: what tree is this?
john crowleyFor those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have a religious experience all nature is capable of revealing itself as cosmic sacrality.
mircea eliadeFor patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.
samuel johnsonWar is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
marianne mooreFor patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.
samuel johnson