Anthony Hecht Quotes
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.
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.
If the heart has its reasons, perhaps the body Has its own lumbering sort of carnal spirit, Felt in the tingling bruises of collision, And known to captains as esprit de corps.
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.
I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order.
Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
