Hecht

Famous quotes containing the word hecht:

    It’s all very well to dream of a dove that saves,
    Picasso’s or the Pope’s
    The one that annually coos in Our Lady’s ear
    Half the world’s hopes,
    —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)

    But all the time he was talking she had in mind
    The notion of what his whiskers would feel like
    On the back of her neck.
    —Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)