Gary Snyder Quotes
Top 56 wise famous quotes and sayings by Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I thought, that day I started, I sure would hate to do this all my life, And dammit, that's just what I've gone and done.
I never find words right away. Poems for me always begin with images and rhythms, shapes, feelings, forms, dances in the back of my mind.
Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses
The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.
the mind poet stays in the house / the house is empty and it has no walls / the poem is seen from all sides / everywhere / at once.
Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.
The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.
My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.
If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land
gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I
not attain highest perfect enlightenment.
gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I
not attain highest perfect enlightenment.
The tribes were Berkeley, North Beach, Big Sur, Marin County, Los Angeles, and the host, Haight-Ashbury.
All those years and their moments - Crackling bacon, slamming car doors, Poems tried out on friends, Will be one more archive, One more shaky text.
Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?