Today’s Writer’s Almanac features the beat poet Gary Snyder and some of his wonderful words:
He said, “As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the Neolithic: the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe.”
And he said, “True affluence is not needing anything.”
This is exactly what I needed to hear today.
