I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.
quote by Kenneth Rexroth
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Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?
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Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.
quote by 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.
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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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The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.
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Lion
The lion is called the king
Of beasts. Nowadays there are
Almost as many lions
In cages as out of them.
If offered a crown, refuse.
poem by Kenneth Rexroth from A Bestiary (1956)
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Cat
There are too many poems
About cats. Beware of cat
Lovers, they have a hidden
Frustration somewhere and will
Stick you with it if they can.
poem by Kenneth Rexroth from A Bestiary (1956)
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Vulture
St. Thomas Aquinas thought
That vultures were lesbians
And fertilized by the wind.
If you seek the facts of life,
Papist intellectuals
Can be very misleading.
poem by Kenneth Rexroth from A Bestiary (1956)
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Deer
Deer are gentle and graceful
And they have beautiful eyes.
They hurt no one but themselves,
The males, and only for love.
Men have invented several
Thousand ways of killing them.
poem by Kenneth Rexroth from A Bestiary (1956)
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