Anthony Hecht's Quotes
Born: 1923-01-16
Profession: Poet
Nation: American
Biography of Anthony Hecht
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.
Tags: Best, Fun, YourselfMysteries, 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.
Tags: Children, Parents, RevealPoetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
Tags: Dark, Poetry, SecretsChildren know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
Tags: Age, Children, EarlyIt doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.
Tags: Children, Seem, StrangeThere'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.
Tags: Good, Memory, Poetry