I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude.... the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. Gary Snyder More Quotes by Gary Snyder More Quotes From Gary Snyder 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. Gary Snyder giving two years 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 writing running people 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 void west self