150 Quotes by Gary Snyder

Allen turned up at my little cabin, ... and we immediately began exchanging poems.

The first priority is just to get them registered,

The world is our consciousness, and it surrounds us.

Great Brown Bear is walking with us, Salmon swimming upstream with us, as we stroll a city street.

The wild-often dismissed as savage and chaotic by “civilized” thinkers, is actually impartially, relentlessly, and beautifully formal and free. Its expression-the richness of plant and animal life on the globe including us, the rainstorms, windstorms, and calm spring mornings-is the real world, to which we belong.

Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics.

They should listen to the unsaid words that resonate around the edge of the poem.

The tribes were Berkeley, North Beach, Big Sur, Marin County, Los Angeles, and the host, Haight-Ashbury.

All those years and their moments – Crackling bacon, slamming car doors, Poems tried out on friends, Will be one more archive, One more shaky text.