Tense Root

Famous quotes containing the words tense and/or root:

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

“The bud of the apple is desire, the down-falling gold,
The catbird’s gobble in the morning half-awake
These are real only if I make them so. Whistle
For me, grow green for me and, as you whistle and grow green,
Intangible arrows quiver and stick in the skin
And I taste at the root of the tongue the unreal of what is real.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)