Top 25 Quotes by Gary Snyder of 84 - Page 4

All that we did was human, stupid, easily forgiven, Not quite right.

All that we did was human, stupid, easily forgiven, Not quite right.

Stupid, Forgiven, Humans

Gary Snyder (1968). “The Back Country”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

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.

Gary Snyder

Buddhist, Writing, Creativity

The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.

Gary Snyder

Sight, Sacred, Sides

Gary Snyder (2008). “A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds”, Counterpoint Press

When making an axe handle the pattern is not far off.

Gary Snyder

Patterns, Handle

Gary Snyder (2009). “Back on the Fire: Essays”, p.142, Counterpoint

The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.

Gary Snyder

Self, Void, West

Gary Snyder (1969). “Earth House Hold: Technical Notes & Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

Gary Snyder

Grandmother, Garden, Hands

Gary Snyder (1992). “No nature: new and selected poems”, Pantheon

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.

Gary Snyder

Ignorance, Mind, Trying

Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.

Gary Snyder

Rocks, Bird, Speak

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.

Gary Snyder

Running, Writing, People

Gary Snyder, William Scott McLean (1980). “The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979”, p.61, New Directions Publishing