Gary Snyder

[Gary Snyder from Eliot Weinberger and Octavio Paz's Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem Is Translated, Moyer Bell, 1987]

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Empty mountains:
     no one to be seen.
Yet -- hear --
     human sounds and echoes.
Returning sunlight
     enters the dark woods;
Again shining
     on the green moss, above.

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem Is Translated