“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.” PeopleGivingYearsTwoThreeThousandHundredScalesPrimitiveThousand Years Book:The Old Ways: Six Essays Source: The Old Ways: Six Essays
“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.” PeopleWantWritingKindDifferentUseRunningFindingsTraditionWoodsDifferent KindsBuilder Book:The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979 Source: The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979
“Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in space and time: Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall riprap of things: Cobble of milky way. straying planets, These poems, people, lost ponies with Dragging saddles -- and rocky sure-foot trails. The worlds like an endless four-dimensional Game of Go. ants and pebbles In the thin loam, each rock a word a creek-washed stone Granite: ingrained with torment of fire and weight Crystal and sediment linked hot all change, in thoughts, As well as things.” PeopleWorldWayMindWellsBodyHandsChoicesGamesLostSpaceFireFourFeetRocksPlanetsWallStonesWeightHotLaysEndlessLeafsLinkedTormentTime And SpaceTrailsCrystalsAntsBarkPebblesPoniesSaddlesCreeksMilky WayGraniteSolidity Book:No nature: new and selected poems Source: No nature: new and selected poems
“Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.” PeopleTryingPhilosophyThreeLiteratureConvinceCagesEntering Book:Earth House Hold Source: Earth House Hold
“Like, when we did Parliament and Funkadelic and Bootsy, it was actually one thing. But there were so many people that you could split them up into different groups. And then, when we went out on tour and they [the record companies] would see us all up there together - we had five, six guitars playing at one time, not including the bass! -, they said: "Wait a minute, that's just one whole group, selling different names!" But it wasn't - we had enough people in the group that each member would have a section to be another group. So now we're finally starting to get them to understand that.” PeopleSaidDifferentEnoughWholeTogetherNamesWaitingCompanyRecordsFiveOne ThingGroupsMinutesMembersSixGuitarIncludingStartingSellingJust OneCollaborationOne TimeSplitsThey SaidSectionsParliamentBassHad EnoughRecord CompaniesGuitar PlayingDifferent Names Author:Gary Snyder
