56 Quotes by Kenneth Rexroth

The holiness of the real Is always there, accessible In total immanence. The nodes Of transcendence coagulate In you, the experiencer, And in the other, the lover.

Love is the garment of knowledge.

Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women.

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.

Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation.

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.

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

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

Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters.