Kenneth Rexroth Frases y Citas
Kenneth Rexroth: Frases en inglés
“Each of us is a specific individual, that one and no other, out of billions.”
"Introduction"
An Autobiographical Novel (1991)
Contexto: Each of us is a specific individual, that one and no other, out of billions. I think each of us knows his own mystery with a knowing that precedes the origins of all knowledge. None of us ever gives it away. No one can. We envelop it with talk and hide it with deeds.
Yet we always hope that somehow the others will know it is there, that a mystery in the other we cannot know will respond to a mystery in the self we cannot understand. The only full satisfaction life offers us is this sense of communion. We seek it constantly. Sometimes we find it. As we grow older we learn that it is never complete and sometimes it is entirely illusory.
Rothenberg and Antin interview (1958)
Contexto: You can’t become a saint by taking dope, stealing your friends’ typewriters, giving girls chancres, not supporting your wife and children, and then reading St. John of the Cross. All of that, when it’s happened before, has typified the collapse of civilization … and today the social fabric is falling apart so fast, it makes your head swim.
In Defense of the Earth (1956), She Is Away
In Defense of the Earth (1956), The Great Nebula of Andromeda
“See Life steadily, see it whole.”
My special thanks, whose even-balanced soul,
From first youth tested up to extreme old age,
Business could not make dull, nor passion wild:
Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
—Matthew Arnold, "To a Friend" http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/A/ArnoldMatthew/verse/strayedreveller/friend.html from The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems (1849)
Misattributed
Gustave Flaubert: A Sentimental Education (p. 187)
Classics Revisited (1968)
"Cub Reporter" http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/autobio/3.htm#Cub%20Reporter
An Autobiographical Novel (1991)
"Time Is the Mercy of Eternity" - The title of this poem is derived from a line by William Blake : "Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.")
In Defense of the Earth (1956)
"World War II" http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/autobio/6.htm
An Autobiographical Novel (1991)
Herodotus: History (p. 45)
Classics Revisited (1968)
"Pysch Ward" http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/autobio/5.htm
An Autobiographical Novel (1991)
Shakespeare: The Tempest (p. 132)
Classics Revisited (1968)
Rothenberg and Antin interview (1958)
The Greek Anthology (p. 59)
Classics Revisited (1968)
“You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.”
Rothenberg and Antin interview (1958)
Rothenberg and Antin interview (1958)
Charles Dickens: The Pickwick Papers (p. 102)
More Classics Revisited (1989)
Marcus Aurelius: The Meditations (p. 82)
Classics Revisited (1968)
"The Students Take Over," The Nation (1960); later printed as "Beginnings of a New Revolt" http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/newrevolt.htm, Assays (1961)
Arthur Conan Doyle: "Sherlock Holmes" (p. 120)
More Classics Revisited (1989)
Tu Fu: Poems (p. 91)
Classics Revisited (1968)
Charles Dickens: The Pickwick Papers (p. 102)
More Classics Revisited (1989)
Referring to the jazz musicians who performed along with his readings
Rothenberg and Antin interview (1958)
Casanova: History of My Life (p. 153)
Classics Revisited (1968)
"Home Schooling and Indian Lore"
An Autobiographical Novel (1991)
In Defense of the Earth (1956), The Great Nebula of Andromeda