A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves. — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe. — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
You run into people who want to write poetry who don't want to read anything in the tradition. That's like wanting to… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
All those years and their moments— Crackling bacon, slamming car doors, Poems tried out on friends, Will be one more archive, One… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
I never find words right away. Poems for me always begin with images and rhythms, shapes, feelings, forms, dances in the back… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“How Poetry Comes to Me It comes blundering over the Boulders at night, it stays Frightened outside the Range of my campfire… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the Neolithic: the fertility of the soil,… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Ko Un's poems evoke the open creativity and fluidity of nature, and funny turns and twists of Mind. Mind is sometimes registered… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
We . . . must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all beings. We must try… — Gary Snyder Copy Share
Doom scenarios, even though they might be true, are not politically or psychologically effective. The first step . . . is to make us… — Gary Snyder Copy Share
Sometime in the last ten years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in an Environment. This discovery… — Gary Snyder Copy Share
A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves. — Gary Snyder Copy Share
You should really know what the complete natural world of your region is and know what all its interactions are and how you are… — Gary Snyder Copy Share
“I have lived at Cold Mountain These thirty long years. Yesterday I called on friends and family: More than half had gone to the… — Gary Snyder Copy Share
But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home.… — Gary Snyder Copy Share
In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words that have… — Gary Snyder Copy Share
Gratitude to the Great Sky who holds billions of stars - and goes yet beyond that - beyond all powers, and thoughts and yet… — Gary Snyder Copy Share
“In the mountains it's cold. Always been cold, not just this year. Jagged scarps forever snowed in Woods in the dark ravines spitting mist.… — Gary Snyder Copy Share
Forests in the tropics are cut to make pasture to raise beef for the American market. Our distance from the source of our food… — Gary Snyder Copy Share
“The blue mountains are constantly walking." Dōgen is quoting the Chan master Furong. -- "If you doubt mountains walking you do not know your… — Gary Snyder Copy Share
