Verb Quotes

Consider incompleteness as a verb.

I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child

Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

[On her recently widowed father’s much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Any noun can be verbed.

Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day.