Reverso

Action seeks embodiment, arrival, and identity.

Just as every noun yearns to be a verb, every verb aches to become a noun. Because action, for all its movement and motion, craves rest. Crave form. A verb wants to become a name: a state of permanence—not just a becoming, but a being. Not the dreaming, but the dream.

To be a noun is to be recognized. To be aimed at, remembered, and referred to. Nouns are what survive the verbs. They are what verbs build toward, strive for, aim at, long for, aspire to be, and seek to become. It’s like scaffolding to a monument. A plan wants to be a plan, not just planned. The act of painting is to arrive at a painting.

They are destiny sealed in language—completion, arrival—a state of certainty. Without the end state, the action vanishes. Unwitnessed. Unnamed. To become a fossil is to leave a mark—etched, not ephemeral.

So while language craves movement, it also craves arrival.