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Kenneth Rexroth
American
Poet
About the author
The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.
Kenneth Rexroth,
American
Poet
#Building
#Speech
This isn't the best town for what we're doing. Too many other things to pull the crowds away.
Kenneth Rexroth,
American
Poet
#Crowds
You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.
Kenneth Rexroth,
American
Poet
#Life
#America
#Italy
Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.
Kenneth Rexroth,
American
Poet
#Man
#Angels
#Disgust
#Ecstasy
Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?
Kenneth Rexroth,
American
Poet
#First
#America
#Performance
I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.
Kenneth Rexroth,
American
Poet
#Life
#Jazz
#Musicians
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,
American
Poet
#Life
#Temple
#Ceremony
#Buddhist
#Buddhism