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List of Anthony Hecht Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 11 inspiring quotes by Anthony Hecht.

About Anthony Hecht

  • Born: January 16, 1923
  • Died: October 20, 2004
  • Occupation: Poet
    • It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.
    Children Strange Should
    Mysteries, like the masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. and so we sought for signs.
    Children Parent Masonic
    There's not a good poet i know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.
    Memories Library Poet
    Brilliant. [lasdun] seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in english, and far better than many who are more famous. his capacities are solidly established; his promise is nearly infinite.
    Writing Promise Vivid
    A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
    Fun Lying Trying
    Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.
    Excellence Mediocrity Survived
    I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering james lasdun's poems in a jump start. he has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order.
    Gratitude Eye Order
    Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
    Children Age World
    If the heart has its reasons, perhaps the body has its own lumbering sort of carnal spirit, felt in the tingling bruises of collision, and known to captains as esprit de corps.
    Sports Heart Bruises
    Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. it is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
    Dark Secret Suggestions
    I look and look, / as though i could be saved simply by looking
    Looks Saved
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