As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.

- Kenneth Rexroth

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 enoug…

- Kenneth Rexroth

Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation.

- Kenneth Rexroth

There have always been those who, though they see tragedy as the outcome of freedom, will nevertheless judge that tragedy is not too high a price to …

- Kenneth Rexroth

It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudenc…

- Kenneth Rexroth

We have forgotten love, and Sat lonely beside each other. We have eaten together, Lonely behind our plates, we Have hidden behind children, We have s…

- Kenneth Rexroth

Now I know surely and forever, However much I have blotted our Waking love, its memory is still there. And I know the web, the net, The blind and…

- Kenneth Rexroth

The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.

- Kenneth Rexroth

Perhaps this is what really happens in life to most good men. They are not crucified. They simply pass through life and then die, and their passing i…

- Kenneth Rexroth