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• 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

  Cutting, News, Youth

  Kenneth Rexroth, Bradford Morrow (1987). “World Outside the Window: The Selected Essays of Kenneth Rexroth”, p.113, New Directions Publishing

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• Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Love Is, Erotic, Contemplation

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• Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Art, Art Is, Senses

  Kenneth Rexroth (1968). “Classics Revisited”, p.198, New Directions Publishing

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• Love is the garment of knowledge.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Life, Love Is, Garments

  Kenneth Rexroth (1975). “Communalism: From Its Origins to the Twentieth Century”, Peter Owen Limited

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

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Good Life, America, Saint

  Interview with Jerome Rothenberg and David Antin, jacketmagazine.com. April 1958.

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• Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Aristocracy, Revolution, Members

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

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Writing, Said, Reactionaries

  Kenneth Rexroth (1961). “Assays”, Norfold, Conn

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

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Men, Giving, Doe

  "Classics Revisited". Book by Kenneth Rexroth. Chapter: "Casanova: History of My Life", p. 153, 1968.

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• An entomologist is not a bug.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Food, Cooking, Bugs

  Kenneth Rexroth, Sam Hamill (1997). “Sacramental Acts: The Love Poems of Kenneth Rexroth”

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

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Difficult, Verses, Commonplace

  Kenneth Rexroth, Bradford Morrow (1989). “More Classics Revisited”, p.54, New Directions Publishing

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• 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

  Struggle, Punishment, Issues

  Kenneth Rexroth (1968). “Classics Revisited”, p.82, New Directions Publishing

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• 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

  Moving, Groups, My Own

  Interview with Jerome Rothenberg and David Antin, jacketmagazine.com. April 1958.

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• I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Musician, Jazz, Jazz Music

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• 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

  Spring, Real, Greek

  Kenneth Rexroth (1968). “Classics Revisited”, p.59, New Directions Publishing

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

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Lines, Speech, Building

  Interview with Jerome Rothenberg and David Antin, jacketmagazine.com. April 1958.

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• 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

  Order, Law, Secret

  Kenneth Rexroth (1968). “Classics Revisited”, p.132, New Directions Publishing

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

  Kenneth Rexroth

  America, Hawks, Firsts

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