Gary Snyder Quotes

born 1930 United States

Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet (originally, often associated with the Beat Generation), essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

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Better, the perfect, easy discipline of the swallows dip and swoop, without east or west.

If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land
gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I
not attain highest perfect enlightenment.

The national polities of the modern world maintain their existence by deliberately fostered craving and fear.

Buddhist Anarchism (1961)

The Bodhisattva lives by the sufferer’s standard, and he must be effective in aiding those who suffer.

Buddhism and the Coming Revolution (1961)

I recalled when I worked in the woods
and the bars of Madras, Oregon.
That short-haired joy and roughness—
America—your stupidity.
I could almost love you again.

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

Buddhism and the Coming Revolution (1961)

Institutional Buddhism has been conspicuously ready to accept or ignore the inequalities and tyrannies of whatever political system it found itself under. This can be death to Buddhism, because it is death to any meaningful function of compassion.

Buddhism and the Coming Revolution (1961)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gary Snyder (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.