Dies Quote by Kenneth Rexroth

I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.

— 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…

— Kenneth Rexroth

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.

— Kenneth Rexroth

Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.

— 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…

— Kenneth Rexroth

Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation.

— 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…

— Kenneth Rexroth

Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women.

— 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…

— Kenneth Rexroth

“Imperceptible It withers in the world, This flower-like human heart.”

— Kenneth Rexroth

Harvey , Galileo , Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural…

— 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…

— Kenneth Rexroth