Kenneth Rexroth Quotes

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

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

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: the creative act.

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.

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.