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> [Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of Mediocrity. We forget that the very volume of this criticism is an indication that our society is still…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-rexroth/today-we-hear-a-great-deal-about-organizational-men-mass-culture/)

[Kenneth Rexroth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-rexroth/)

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## More by Kenneth Rexroth

> [I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-rexroth/i-ve-had-it-with-these-cheap-sons-of-bitches-who-claim-they-love/)

[Kenneth Rexroth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-rexroth/)

> [“There are sparkles of rain on the bright Hair over your forehead; Your eyes are wet and your lips Wet and cold, your cheek…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-rexroth/there-are-sparkles-of-rain-on-the-bright-hair-over-your-forehead-your/)

[Kenneth Rexroth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-rexroth/)

> [The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-rexroth/the-basic-line-in-any-good-verse-is-cadenced-building-it-around-the/)

[Kenneth Rexroth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-rexroth/)

> [Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-rexroth/maturity-is-having-the-ability-to-escape-categorization/)

[Kenneth Rexroth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-rexroth/)

> [The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and avoids…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-rexroth/the-mature-man-lives-quietly-does-good-privately-takes-responsibility/)

[Kenneth Rexroth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-rexroth/)

> [Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-rexroth/erotic-love-is-one-of-the-highest-forms-of-contemplation/)

[Kenneth Rexroth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-rexroth/)

> [Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-rexroth/victorian-society-was-homogeneous-without-being-homogenized-it-was-to/)

[Kenneth Rexroth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-rexroth/)

> [Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-rexroth/crooked-cards-and-straight-whiskey-slow-horses-and-fast-women/)

[Kenneth Rexroth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-rexroth/)

> [“The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, assumes personal responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-rexroth/the-mature-man-lives-quietly-does-good-privately-assumes-personal/)

[Kenneth Rexroth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-rexroth/)

> [“Imperceptible It withers in the world, This flower-like human heart.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-rexroth/imperceptible-it-withers-in-the-world-this-flower-like-human-heart/)

[Kenneth Rexroth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-rexroth/)

> [Harvey , Galileo , Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-rexroth/harvey-galileo-copernicus-do-not-seem-occult-to-us-but-they-did-so-to/)

[Kenneth Rexroth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-rexroth/)

> [The free, creative, loving people who shine so brightly in my memory of studios and coffee shops have become models for a huge section…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-rexroth/the-free-creative-loving-people-who-shine-so-brightly-in-my-memory-of/)

[Kenneth Rexroth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-rexroth/)

> [Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-rexroth/art-is-the-reasoned-derangement-of-the-senses/)

[Kenneth Rexroth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-rexroth/)

> [The moral issues with which Marcus struggles would be, as he points out, unchanged whether the universe were mechanical and devoid of meaning or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-rexroth/the-moral-issues-with-which-marcus-struggles-would-be-as-he-points/)

[Kenneth Rexroth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-rexroth/)

> [You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-rexroth/you-don-t-become-a-saint-until-you-lead-a-good-life-whether-in-tibet/)

[Kenneth Rexroth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-rexroth/)

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