This isn't the best town for what we're doing. Too many other things to pull the crowds away. Kenneth Rexroth More Quotes by Kenneth Rexroth More Quotes From Kenneth Rexroth Perhaps this is what really happens in life to most good men. They are not crucified. They simply pass through life and then die, and their passing influences just a few people to make them just a little happy. Kenneth Rexroth good-manmenpeople Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women. Kenneth Rexroth whiskeyhorsecards The moral issues with which Marcus struggles would be, as he points out, unchanged whether the universe were mechanical and devoid of meaning or value or ruled by deity or Providence; whether the will were in fact free or determined; whether there were or were not a future life, or any even fugitive rewards and punishments at all. Kenneth Rexroth punishmentissuesstruggle As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem. Kenneth Rexroth reactionariessaidwriting You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience. Kenneth Rexroth journalisticreportersifs 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 my-owngroupsmoving It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not. Kenneth Rexroth versescommonplacedifficult An entomologist is not a bug. Kenneth Rexroth bugscookingfood Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy Kenneth Rexroth aristocracymembersrevolution Love is the garment of knowledge. Kenneth Rexroth garmentslove-islife The modern sensibility attempts to drain the contents of experience; these Greek poets strive to state the fact so poignantly that it becomes an ever-flowing spring as Sappho says, "More real than real, more gold than gold. Kenneth Rexroth greekrealspring Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses. Kenneth Rexroth art-issensesart The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech. Kenneth Rexroth buildinglinesspeech I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life. Kenneth Rexroth jazz-musicjazzmusician The holiness of the real Kenneth Rexroth holinessreallife You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America. Kenneth Rexroth good-lifesaintamerica 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 secretlaworder A white crowned night sparrow sings as the moon sets. Thunder growls far off. Our campfire is a single light. Amongst a hundred peaks and waterfalls. The manifold voices of falling water Take all night. Wrapped in your down bag Starlight on you cheeks and eyelids Your breath comes and goes In a tiny cloud in the frosty night. Ten thousand birds sing in the sunrise. Ten thousand years revolve without change. All this will never be again. Kenneth Rexroth moontimefall Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters. Kenneth Rexroth mastersmatterreality Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well? Kenneth Rexroth hawksamericafirsts
