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

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. — 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. — Anthony Hecht

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

I accomplished something big and that's a memory I will never forget. — Gabby Douglas

When the sunshine of God's love meets the shadows of our sorrows, the rainbow of promise appears. — Ryan Jo Summers

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

But of course it's always gonna be Suicide, our fingerprints, ya know? You can't ever get rid of that. — Alan Vega

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

I think the Prime Minister has embarked on a journey and he has no idea where he's taking us. — John Hewson

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

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

Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others. — W. H. Auden