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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

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

My heavy heart has gone this way before. — Kenneth Rexroth

I look at myself and pick out the things I don't like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area. — Tyra Banks

We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed. — Philip Yancey

I think calling someone a character is a compliment. — Errol Morris

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

An entomologist is not a bug. — Kenneth Rexroth

But of course everything presses forward, even as we dig our feet against the reality of it all. — Carrie Ryan

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

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

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

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

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

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

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks. — Denis Waitley

If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion. — Richard John Neuhaus

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

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

This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

Man is a tireless traveller wandering in the dark valleys of his past! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

This hook nose and crab meister attitude has gotten me every job I've ever had. And more divorces than I care to remember. — Norman Fell

Never give importance to anyone more than yourself, because once that person becomes important, you become nothing ... — Viren

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

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

Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses. — Kenneth Rexroth

Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization. — Kenneth Rexroth

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it. — Madeleine L'Engle

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

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

Sadness is pervasive, so focus on joy, focus on happiness. — Debasish Mridha

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

Blitz chess kills your ideas. — Bobby Fischer

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

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

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

I'm tired of justifying what I've said. — Jose Canseco

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

Love is the garment of knowledge. — Kenneth Rexroth

Marriage wrecks any decent relationship. — Susan Straight