Quotes by Kenneth Rexroth

• The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.
• This isn't the best town for what we're doing. Too many other things to pull the crowds away.
• You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.
• Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.
• Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?
• I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.
• 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.