Hecht

Famous quotes containing the word hecht:

    Mens sana in men’s sauna, in the flush
    Of health and toilets, private and corporal glee,
    —Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)

    Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them—as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
    —Ben Hecht (1893–1964)

    The eventual shapes of all our formless prayers,
    This dark, this cabin of loose imaginings,
    Wind, lake, lip, everything awaits
    The slow unloosening of her underthings.
    —Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)