Honing Marks

Famous quotes containing the words honing and/or marks:

“His conversation glided on the brain
Like a razor honing in promise of one’s decease....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.”
—Paul De Man (1919–1983)