Tense Meaning

Famous quotes containing the words tense and/or meaning:

“Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“The novelist’s—any writer’s—object is to whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, is fatal is when he does not know what he does mean: he has no point to sharpen.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)