Kenneth Rexroth Quotes

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• A white crowned night sparrow sings as the moon sets. Thunder growls far off. Our campfire is a single light. Amongst a hundred peaks and…
• You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.
• Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.
• Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?
• I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.
• The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.
• When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up…
• It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.
• Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: the creative act.
• The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.
• An entomologist is not a bug.
• Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.
• Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.
• I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.
• The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and avoids it.…
• I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. […] I wish to speak to and for…
• Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy
• Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women.
• Love is the garment of knowledge.
• The free, creative, loving people who shine so brightly in my memory of studios and coffee shops have become models for a huge section of…

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