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Kenneth Rexroth Quotes

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Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation  (Kenneth Rexroth Quotes) Harvey , Galileo , Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural Law, revealers of the secrets of a New Order of the Ages. After all, the movement eventually came to be called the Age of Enlightenment.  (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  (Kenneth Rexroth Quotes) Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well that they could afford to differ  (Kenneth Rexroth Quotes) Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she said she wanted to be confirmed there because she only liked Jesus as a kid. She was a little disappointed in him when he grew up  (Kenneth Rexroth Quotes) You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience  (Kenneth Rexroth Quotes) What I try with my own stuff is to work the poem to a slow climax through a series of quiet painful dissonances  (Kenneth Rexroth Quotes) Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses  (Kenneth Rexroth Quotes) I’ve been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life  (Kenneth Rexroth Quotes) An entomologist is not a bug  (Kenneth Rexroth Quotes) The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained  (Kenneth Rexroth Quotes) Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: the creative act  (Kenneth Rexroth Quotes) Love is the garment of knowledge  (Kenneth Rexroth Quotes) Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust  (Kenneth Rexroth Quotes) This isn’t the best town for what we’re doing. Too many other things to pull the crowds away  (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  (Kenneth Rexroth Quotes) There have always been those who, though they see tragedy as the outcome of freedom, will nevertheless judge that tragedy is not too high a price to pay  (Kenneth Rexroth Quotes) Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters  (Kenneth Rexroth Quotes) 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. Without the hidden conspiracy of goodwill, society would not endure an hour  (Kenneth Rexroth Quotes) I’ve had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book  (Kenneth Rexroth Quotes) 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 the population. If they in turn can just stay alive in the face of power and terror, they may become the decisive section  (Kenneth Rexroth Quotes) 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  (Kenneth Rexroth Quotes) 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 to something, that’s news. If they aren’t, that’s news too  (Kenneth Rexroth Quotes) The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech  (Kenneth Rexroth Quotes)