Strong Verbs

Famous quotes containing the words strong and/or verbs:

“Heaven is not like flying or swimming,
but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

“He crafted his writing and loved listening to those tiny explosions when the active brutality of verbs in revolution raced into sweet established nouns to send marching across the page a newly commissioned army of words-on-maneuvers, all decorated in loops, frets, and arrowlike flourishes.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)