Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet (often associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance), as well as an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist (frequently described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology"). Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His work, in his various roles, reflects an immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature. Snyder has translated literature into English from ancient Chinese and modern Japanese. For many years, Snyder served as a faculty member at the University of California, Davis, and he also served for a time on the California Arts Council.

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Famous quotes by gary snyder:

    Black pit cold and light-year
    Flame tongue of the dragon
    Licks the sun

    The sun is but a morning star
    Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

    No paradise, no fall,
    Only the weathering land
    The wheeling sky,
    Man, with is Satan
    Scouring the chaos of the mind.
    Oh Hell!
    Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

    Our girls get layed by Coyote
    We get along
    just fine.
    The Shuswap tribe.
    Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

    They came to camp. On their
    Own trails I followed my own
    Trail here. Picked up the cold-drill,
    Pick, singlejack, and sack
    Of dynamite
    Ten thousand years.
    Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

    a big picture of K. Marx with an axe,
    ‘Where I cut off one it will never grow again.’
    O Karl would it were true
    I’d put my saw to work for you
    & the wicked social tree would fall right down.
    Gary Snyder (b. 1930)