17 Quotes by 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, precision, and imagination of a high order.

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 famous. His capacities are solidly established; his promise is nearly infinite.

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.

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

These questions absorbed me at an age when I was supposed to be getting down the rudimentary facts of American history, which I carelessly neglected.

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

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, precision, and imagination of a high order.

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.