Peruse poetry books and chapbooks by Terri Glass below. Topics include spirituality, sensory experiences, and the beauty of the natural world now in decline. Signed copies available on request.
Cluster of purple
in fine spring rain
faint scent of lilac.
March pond ripples
like boats the ducks glide
a mallard moons me.
Rustle in the leaves
sings a bird I cannot see
 dawn soliloquy.
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
“I think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.”
“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”
“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth:
the true poet is near the oracle.”
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“The Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poet’s hearts.”
“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.”
“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”
“All night wild impulses
The only way to find a path
is to set fire to your life.”
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”
“A poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.”
Peruse poetry books and chapbooks by Terri Glass below. Topics include spirituality, sensory experiences, and the beauty of the natural world now in decline. Signed copies available on request.
A poet and writer of the natural world, Terri Glass mentored under William Stafford and Robert Bly.