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21 " Need we go into details about what I said to Judy? I am no poet, and I suppose what I said was very much what everybody always says, and although I remember her as speaking golden words, I cannot recall precisely anything she said. If love is to be watched and listened to without embarrassment, it must be transmuted into art, and I don't know how to do that, and it is not what I have come to Zurich to learn. "
― Robertson Davies , The Manticore (The Deptford Trilogy, #2)
22 " He lies there listening to it, absorbing this sense of his own quiet drone transmuted into something of certain substance, something large, magnificent and grand—no longer him, no, but something bursting from him, leaving his split carcass behind as a monument to its source, its host, its feeding ground. "
― Patrick Bryant , Hum A Radiant Sickness
23 " Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world. "
