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Type: Poet Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes Date of Birth: January 16, 1923 Date of Death: October 20, 2004 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Anthony Hecht Related Authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Walt Whitman Bryant H. McGill Carl Sandburg James Russell Lowell T. S. Eliot |
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 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 It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. Anthony Hecht 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 Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. 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 poetry that composes his mental library. Anthony Hecht |
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