There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair, Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem... From insignificance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They've a temper, some of them--paticularly verbs: they're the proudest--adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs--howev...er, I can manage the whole lot of them!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 »
I would watch the funny people make love the way Maupassant said, my youth allowed me the opportunity to hear all those stran...ge verbs conjugated in erotic affirmations.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 »
I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret; The code of night tapped on my tongue;... What had been one was many sounding minded.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »