Kenneth Rexroth Quotes

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

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

This isn't the best town for what we're doing. Too many other things to pull the crowds away. - Kenneth Rexroth

The Godfather of the Beats. - Kenneth Rexroth

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

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

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life. - Kenneth Rexroth

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

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