Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?
We are gods in the chrysalis.
Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.
Butterflies are very interesting. Here these things are little grubs for a while. And then they go into a little coffin. There they are in a sarcophagus, and then they come out and dance with the angels.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.
A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential to burst into new life.
And many an ante-natal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come.
The three states of the caterpillar, larva, and butterfly have, since the time of the Greek poets, been applied to typify the human being,--its terrestrial form, apparent death, and ultimate celestial destination.
I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.
He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and... he was a beautiful butterfly!
What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest. The gaudy Fop's his picture just.
