Anthony Hecht famous quotes

04-17-2025

I look and look, / As though I could be saved simply by looking
-- Anthony Hecht

#Looks
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
-- Anthony Hecht

#Dark #Secret #Suggestions
Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
-- Anthony Hecht

#Children #Age #World
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.
-- Anthony Hecht

#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.
-- Anthony Hecht

#Memories #Library #Poet
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.
-- Anthony Hecht

#Fun #Lying #Trying
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.
-- Anthony Hecht

#Gratitude #Eye #Order
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.
-- Anthony Hecht

#Writing #Promise #Vivid
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.
-- Anthony Hecht

#Children #Strange #Macabre
Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.
-- Anthony Hecht

#Excellence #Mediocrity

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