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Sometime in the last ten years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in an Environment. This discovery has been forced on us by the realization that we are approaching the limits of something.
Gary Snyder
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Gary Snyder
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 8
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My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.
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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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The other side of the sacred is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.
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A great poet does not express his or her self he expresses all of our selves.
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For those who can, one of the things to do is not to move. To stay put. That doesn't mean don't travel it means have a place and get involved in what can be done in that place. That's the only way we're going to have a representative democracy in America. Nobody stays anywhere long enough to take responsibility for a local community.
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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.
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All that we did was human, stupid, easily forgiven, Not quite right.
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Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.
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You don't want to be victimized by your lesser talents.
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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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