American - Poet | December 22, 1905 - June 6, 1982
Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.
Kenneth Rexroth
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The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.
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This isn't the best town for what we're doing. Too many other things to pull the crowds away.
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I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.
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Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?
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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.
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You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.
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