Hecht

Famous quotes containing the word hecht:

    I spent my life mixin’ with your breed, and I don’t like it. Get me. You can hide behind a lot of red tape, crooked lawyers and politicians with the gimmes, writs of habeas corpus, witnesses that don’t remember overnight, but we’ll get through to you, just like we got all the rest.
    —Ben Hecht (1893–1964)

    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.
    —Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)

    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)