Anthony Hecht Quotes

Anthony Hecht
Anthony Hecht
American Poet
Born: Jan 16, 1923
Died: Oct 20, 2004
Best Children Dark Like Mysteries Saying
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
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
Signs Parents Mysteries Rites Masonic Like Sought Reveal Children Which Elders Include Sworn
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
Age World Mysteries Remarkably Participate Know Being Children Them Grown-Ups Things Early Early Age Kept
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
Saying Best Yourself First Stage Sense Finally Penetrate Lies Mystery Through Had Over Like Return Pass Till Nonsense Lines Lot Escaped Trying Done Again Notice Full Fun
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
Good Library Memory Poet Mental Poetry Vast Know Call Beck Quantity His Who

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