Transfiguring Quotes

• A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.

  

  Joy Williams
  • Writer
  • Agent
  • Transfiguring

• Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if the artful but know it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.

  

  Helen Hunt
  • Face
  • Weapon
  • Transfiguring

• Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

  

  Alfred Austin
  • Real
  • Imagination
  • Poetry