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Gary Snyder
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 8
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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.
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You should really know what the complete natural world of your region is and know what all its interactions are and how you are interacting with it yourself. This is just part of the work of becoming who you are, where you are.
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The mercy of the West has been social revolution the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.
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Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.
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All this new stuff goes on top turn it over, turn it over wait and water down from the dark bottom turn it inside out let it spread through Sift down even. Watch it sprout. A mind like compost.
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Thought is just an apprehension of touch.
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I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you're never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here.
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A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.
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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.
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In Western Civilization, our elders are books.
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The best thing you can do for the planet is to stay home.
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The other side of the sacred is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.
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O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!
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What is any religion? A little ritual, a little superstition, and some magic. It's not a strictly spiritual affair it has psychological roles to fulfill. You might not want it to be a religion based on your own experience but that's like wanting to clean up your dreams
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There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.
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Doom scenarios, even though they might be true, are not politically or psychologically effective. The first step . . . is to make us love the world rather than to make us fear for the end of the world.
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A great poet does not express his or her self he expresses all of our selves.
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When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.
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My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.
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Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses
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