Verbs Derived

Famous quotes containing the words verbs and/or derived:

“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)

“All moral discipline, all moral perfection derived from the soul of literature.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)