Magicians and poets have the same secret quest in their hearts: to say the magic words that open the place where real magic lives. Gary Snyder, our greatest living poet, expresses it in "Song of the Taste" - the magic formula of the universe, which maintains and nourishes all to the end of time: everything eats everything else.
[Image: Allen Crawford, courtesy of Tin House; words from Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"]
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