Anthony Hecht

It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

— Anthony Hecht

I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a…

— Anthony Hecht

It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

— Anthony Hecht

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

— Anthony Hecht

“Doctors of Science, what is man that he Should hope to come to a good end? The best is not to have…

— Anthony Hecht

If the heart has its reasons, perhaps the body Has its own lumbering sort of carnal spirit, Felt in the tingling bruises…

— Anthony Hecht

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

— Anthony Hecht

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines…

— Anthony Hecht

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

Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children.…

— Anthony Hecht

Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.

— Anthony Hecht

Brilliant. [Lasdun] seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than…

— Anthony Hecht

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of…

— Anthony Hecht