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. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
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,… — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
“Doctors of Science, what is man that he Should hope to come to a good end? The best is not to have been born.” — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
If the heart has its reasons, perhaps the body Has its own lumbering sort of carnal spirit, Felt in the tingling bruises of collision,… — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself… — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so… — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
Brilliant. [Lasdun] seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than many who… — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
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