Nouns of number, or multitude, such as Mob, Parliament, Rabble, House of Commons, Regiment, Court of King's Bench, Den of Thieves,... and the like.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, treble ...or centuple use and meaning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it ab...ides for contemplation forever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Philosophers multiply our general nouns and verbs; they give fresh sense to stale terms; "man" and "nature" are their characters; ...while novelists toil at filling in the blanks in proper names and at creating other singular affairs. A novelist may pin a rose to its stem as you might paper a tail to its donkey, the rose may blush at his command, but the philosopher can elevate that reddening from an act of simple verbal predication to an angel-like ingression, ennobling it among Beings. The soul, we must remember is the philosopher's invention, as thrilling a creation as, for instance, Madame Bovary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ladies egged him on; in Eve's name, they dared him; so he made love with discreet verbs and light nouns, delicate conjunctions.... They begged; they defied him to define ... define everything.... Indecent prepositions such as in, on, up, merely made them smile, and the roundest exclamation broke upon them like a bubble's kiss, a butterfly's. Smooth and creamy adjectives enabled them to lick their lips upon the crudest story. How charmingly you speak, Reverend Furber how much you've seen of this wicked world, and how alive you are to it, they said.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty.... The Nouns were struck, moved, changed. The next day a Verb drove up, and created the Sentence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poetry is I say essentially a vocabulary just as prose is essentially not. And what is the vocabulary of which poetry absolutely i...s. It is a vocabulary based on the noun as prose is essentially and determinately and vigorously not based on the noun. Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun. It is doing that always doing that, doing that doing nothing but that. Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns.... So that is poetry really loving the name of anything and that is not prose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring... with replacing the noun. It is doing that always doing that, doing that and doing nothing but that. Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns. That is what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no matter what kind of poetry it is. And there are a great many kinds of poetry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He crafted his writing and loved listening to those tiny explosions when the active brutality of verbs in revolution raced into sw...eet established nouns to send marching across the page a newly commissioned army of words-on-maneuvers, all decorated in loops, frets, and arrowlike flourishes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »