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Anthony Hecht quotes: Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.

Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.

Anthony Hecht quotes: 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 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 quotes: I had the gift, and arrived at the techniqueThat called up spirits from the vasty deep...

I had the gift, and arrived at the technique
That called up spirits from the vasty deep...

Anthony Hecht quotes: 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 quotes: I look and look, / As though I could be saved simply by looking

I look and look, / As though I could be saved simply by looking

Anthony Hecht quotes: Doctors of Science, what is man that heShould hope to come to a good end? The best is not to have been born.

Doctors of Science, what is man that he
Should hope to come to a good end?
The best is not to have been born.

Anthony Hecht quotes: It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.