Gary Snyder Quotes

Grandfather Space. The Mind is his Wife

A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.

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.

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

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

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.