Here's a suggested 'take-off point.' The thing to do is put the quote on your page and go-go-go! Write before you have time to think anything through. Write without thinking. Let it happen.

The subject in the quote is metamorphosis, transformation, change. We all go through a plethora of changes during a lifetime, so it's a fitting subject for writing. The quote is from the introduction to A. D. Melville's translation of the Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses. So the quote (from the Latin), dates from about the time Jesus walked the earth.

I wish you good writing. Send me a copy if you wish. I'd love to see what you do with it. I'm using it in some of my classes and enjoying seeing the results. Let me also note that the quote is detailed, so it lends itself to more than one writing. For example, we might use only a few words at a time, such as "overstep its own limits."

From De Rerum Natura, by the Roman poet Lucretius, quoted in the introduction to Ovid's Metamorphoses (translation by Ovid by A. D. Melville of Cambridge University):

For if anything is so transformed as to overstep its own limits, this means the immediate death of what it was before.

Good writing to you!
Barbara Kidd Lawing
bklawing@earthlink.net, 704-875-6112