of Transfigure
Source: Webster's dictionaryImagination in Poetry, as distinguished from mere Fancy, is the transfiguring of the Real, or actual, into the Ideal. Alfred Austin
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. John Drinkwater
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
The transfiguring touch was to come, it seemed from a girl's lips; but it had not; he kissed, and life remained uncharmed. James Branch Cabell
It had been a moving, tranquil apotheosis, immersed in the transfiguring sunset glow of decline and decay and extinction. Thomas Mann