Compound Tense

Famous quotes containing the words compound and/or tense:

“He tries by a peculiar speech to speak
The peculiar potency of the general,
To compound the imagination’s Latin with
The lingua franca et jocundissima.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

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