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Kenneth Rexroth quotes: Lost in loneliness and pain. Black and unendurable, Thinking of you with every Corpuscle of my flesh, in Every instant of night And day.

Lost in loneliness and pain. Black and unendurable, Thinking of you with every Corpuscle of my flesh, in Every instant of night And day.

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

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

Kenneth Rexroth quotes: My heavy heart has gone this way before.

My heavy heart has gone this way before.

Kenneth Rexroth quotes: Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy

Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy

Kenneth Rexroth quotes: An entomologist is not a bug.

An entomologist is not a bug.

Kenneth Rexroth quotes: Love slays what we have been,That we may be what we were not.

Love slays what we have been,
That we may be what we were not.

Kenneth Rexroth quotes: I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

Kenneth Rexroth quotes: Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense - the creative act.

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense - the creative act.

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

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

Kenneth Rexroth quotes: Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation.

Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation.

Kenneth Rexroth quotes: You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.

You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.

Kenneth Rexroth quotes: Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters.

Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters.

Kenneth Rexroth quotes: Japanese poetry does what poetry does everywhere: it intensifies and exalts experience.

Japanese poetry does what poetry does everywhere: it intensifies and exalts experience.

Kenneth Rexroth quotes: Men who live like Casanova are seldom interested in themselves; their egocentricity does not give them time for egotism.

Men who live like Casanova are seldom interested in themselves; their egocentricity does not give them time for egotism.

Kenneth Rexroth quotes: With my own group I like to keep it loose. They have to counter rather than go with me. When they stop I like to be moving.

With my own group I like to keep it loose. They have to counter rather than go with me. When they stop I like to be moving.

Kenneth Rexroth quotes: Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women.

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

Kenneth Rexroth quotes: Love is the garment of knowledge.

Love is the garment of knowledge.

Kenneth Rexroth quotes: Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.

Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.

Kenneth Rexroth quotes: Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, What man does with his aloneness.

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, What man does with his aloneness.

Kenneth Rexroth quotes: This isn't the best town for what we're doing. Too many other things to pull the crowds away.

This isn't the best town for what we're doing. Too many other things to pull the crowds away.

Kenneth Rexroth quotes: It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.

It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.

Kenneth Rexroth quotes: As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.

As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.

Kenneth Rexroth quotes: Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?

Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?

Kenneth Rexroth quotes: Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.

Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.

Kenneth Rexroth quotes: Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.

Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.

Kenneth Rexroth quotes: You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.

You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.

Kenneth Rexroth quotes: The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.

The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.