The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.
More Quotes from Kenneth Rexroth:
Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.Kenneth Rexroth
I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.
Kenneth Rexroth
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.
Kenneth Rexroth
What we call philosophy today is a complicated method of avoiding all the important problems of life.
Kenneth Rexroth
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.
Kenneth Rexroth
Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?
Kenneth Rexroth
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Speech QuotesSuspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
Hosea Ballou
Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.
Niki Lauda
I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury.
George Galloway