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.
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
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
Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence. - Anthony Hecht
Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. - Anthony Hecht
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.
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
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, … - Anthony Hecht
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, …
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. - Anthony Hecht
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
I look and look, / As though I could be saved simply by looking - Anthony Hecht
I look and look, / As though I could be saved simply by looking
Brilliant. [Lasdun] seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than many who are more … - Anthony Hecht
Brilliant. [Lasdun] seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than many who are more …
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 … - Anthony Hecht
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 …
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