Anthony Hecht Quotes

"Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew."
- Anthony Hecht
(Related: Poetry, Secrets)

"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
(Related: Poetry, Memory, Quantity)

"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
(Related: Children, Parents)

"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
(Related: Age, Being, Children, World)

"It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden."
- Anthony Hecht
(Related: Children, Forbidden)