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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
The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy.
— Connie Sellecca
My heavy heart has gone this way before.
— Kenneth Rexroth
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
I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that.
— Howard Stern
Love slays what we have been,
That we may be what we were not. — Kenneth Rexroth
That we may be what we were not. — Kenneth Rexroth
I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.
— Kenneth Rexroth
I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
— Lucille Ball
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
Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation.
— Kenneth Rexroth
Inspiration has to be natural for me, not so considered, I am not saying that is right or wrong, it's simply what works for me.
— Justin Broadrick
I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.
— Kenneth Rexroth
You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.
— Kenneth Rexroth
The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.
— 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
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
Japanese poetry does what poetry does everywhere: it intensifies and exalts experience.
— Kenneth Rexroth
Men who live like Casanova are seldom interested in themselves; their egocentricity does not give them time for egotism.
— Kenneth Rexroth
Preaching means more than handing over a tradition; it is rather the careful and sensitive articulation of what is happening in the community
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
I began to realize that when people experience the love of God, it casts out their fear and frees them from guilt.
— Joseph Prince
Jesus overturned money-changing tables in the temple, but set up banqueting tables in his Father's house.
— Brian Zahnd
Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.
— Kenneth Rexroth
Live today. Pray today. Let the Lord take care of tomorrow, seeing as how he knows more about it than we do anyhow.
— Ann H. Gabhart
My list of acceptable and unacceptable behaviors became a list of exciting possibilities.
— C.D. Reiss
Crooked cards and straight whiskey,
Slow horses and fast women. — Kenneth Rexroth
Slow horses and fast women. — Kenneth Rexroth
Love is the garment of knowledge.
— Kenneth Rexroth
Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.
— 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
This isn't the best town for what we're doing. Too many other things to pull the crowds away.
— Kenneth Rexroth
Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that.
— Nigel Short