Honum Quotes & Sayings

Chloe Honum's brilliant first book The Tulip-Flame traces an identity forming within radically divergent but interlocking systems: a family traumatized by the mother's suicide, a failed relationship, the practice of ballet, a garden-each strict, exacting. And with 'a crow's sky-knowing mind,' Honum in every case transfigures emotion by way of elegant language and formal restraint. Chloe Honum is 'one astounding flame' of a poet, and I predict a long-lasting one. — Claudia Emerson

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Sometimes people ask you a question with their eyes begging you to not tell them the truth. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice. — William Faulkner

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them. — William Manchester

There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house. — Anne Tyler

Your time is your life. You are absolutely the final authority on how you will use it. — Anne Katherine

You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side. — William E. Gladstone

I called my philosophy the philosophy of fuckness. I first developed this philosophy when I realized I was the type of person who would go to just about any lengths necessary in order to avoid trouble and misery. That is, I just wanted to live life the way I wanted to live it without any interruptions or having to answer to anyone. — Andersen Prunty