56 Quotes by Kenneth Rexroth

I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.

Making love with you Is like drinking sea water. The more I drink The thirstier I become, Until nothing can slake my thirst But to drink the entire sea.

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.

The stars pass.The moon passes. Blue clouds pass above the mountains to the north.The years go by." Empress Jito

I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. […] I wish to speak to and for those who have had enough of the Social Lie, the Economics of Mass Murder, the Sexual Hoax, and the Domestication of Conspicuous Consumption.

Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.

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

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

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.