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Kenneth Rexroth

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


— Kenneth Rexroth


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


— Kenneth Rexroth


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


— Kenneth Rexroth


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Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.


— Kenneth Rexroth


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


— Kenneth Rexroth


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


— Kenneth Rexroth


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


— Kenneth Rexroth


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Despite the value of his critical prose he dismissed these works as being financially motivated. They remained married until Rexroth's death in 1982. de L.

Rexroth had two daughters Mary (who later changed her name to Mariana) and Katharine by his third wife Marthe Larsen. Kenneth Rexroth (December 22 1905 – June 6 1982) was an American poet translator and critical essayist. Although he did not consider himself to be a Beat poet and disliked the association he was dubbed the "Father of the Beats" by Time.

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