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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459904" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Verbs v. nouns</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nouns… <br>they’re dead things; names <br>you give to things to render them <br>immobile; to make them yours, your very own; fit for nothing <br>except scrapheaps, museums, dictionaries, armchairs; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">but they make you feel good; <br>you have control over their world; <br>you don’t have to think about them any more; <br>they’re all locked up safe in your collecting-box, <br>the noun for which is head: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">you can sound important with nouns: <br>this government’s raft of measures <br>for fiscal stimulation of the economy </div><div style="margin:10px 0">but verbs… ah, verbs! <br>you can’t own them, push them about, <br>collect them, be important about them; <br>they own themselves; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">they’re outdoor words: going about their <br>lawful business, doing what they're best at, <br>measuring their own life as they work; <br>adapting themselves to what needs to be done <br>which nouns can’t do without a committee <br>and then it’s too late; happy <br>to be themselves, being; even <br>being while they’re doing.. don't you wish <br>you were a verb? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nature – (that’s a verb, by the way, <br>not a noun) – is all verbs; evolution <br>is a verb (not a theory): <br>DNA’s a verb – you can’t own it <br>like a noun…it doesn’t even <br>want to own you… </div><div style="margin:10px 0">so, be a child – put your boots on, <br>run, splash, shout look at all those verbs; <br>how bright the world, what fun, <br>nothing to put in your pocket to take home </div><div style="margin:10px 0">(or if you do, it’ll change to a noun, your noun, <br>in your pocket, in your drawer, gathering dust: <br>verbs don’t have the time to gather dust…) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">verbs are for observing; verbs are for <br>seeing for the first time; wow! Verbs are for <br>inventors, explorers, tree-climbing, <br>coming home after a day of verb-watching <br>tired and looking forward to tomorrow <br>and sleeping soundly, maybe even <br>thanking, laughing, giving, living; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">God is a verb.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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they’re dead things; names 
you give to things to render them 
immobile; to make them yours, your very own; fit for nothing 
except scrapheaps, museums, dictionaries, armchairs; 

but they make you feel good; 
you have control over the..."></div>
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