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• Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities.

  Gary Snyder

  Home, Space, Body

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.105, Counterpoint Press

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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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.

  Gary Snyder

  Self, Void, West

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

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Ignorance, Mind, Trying

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

  Gary Snyder

  Rocks, Bird, Speak

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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.

  Gary Snyder

  Running, Writing, People

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

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