FAMOUS QUOTES MENU
» Famous Quotes Home » Quote Topics » Author Nationalities » Author Types » Popular Searches
|
Anthony Hecht Quotes
Page 1 of 1Anthony Hecht
January 16, 1923 - October 20, 2004
Nationality: American
Category: Poet
Subcategory: American Poet
|  It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. | | 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. | | 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 know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries. | | 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. | | Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. |
|
|
|
|
