Author: Anthony Hecht

Quotes

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.

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

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

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

- 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.

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

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