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List of Gary Snyder Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 84 inspiring quotes by Gary Snyder.

About Gary Snyder

  • Born: May 8, 1930
  • Occupation: Poet
    • You run into people who want to write poetry who don't want to read anything in the tradition. that's like wanting to be a builder but not finding out what different kinds of wood you use.
    Running Writing People
    Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.
    Rocks Bird Speak
    I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.
    Ignorance Mind Trying
    My grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.
    Grandmother Garden Hands
    The mercy of the west has been social revolution; the mercy of the east has been individual insight into the basic self/void.
    Self Void West
    When making an axe handle the pattern is not far off.
    Patterns Handle
    The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.
    Sight Sacred Sides
    In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. we're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.
    Years Two Giving
    Burning the small dead branches broke from beneath thick spreading whitebark pine. a hundred summers snowmelt rock and air hiss in a twisted bough.
    Summer Rocks Air
    Ko un's poems evoke the open creativity and fluidity of nature, and funny turns and twists of mind. mind is sometimes registered in buddhist terms - buddhist practice being part of ko un's background. ko un writes spare, short-line lyrics direct to the point, but often intricate in both wit and meaning. ko un has now traveled worldwide and is not only a major spokesman for all korean culture, but a voice for planet earth watershed as well.
    Buddhist Writing Creativity
    Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities.
    Home Space Body
    All that we did was human, stupid, easily forgiven, not quite right.
    Stupid Forgiven Humans
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