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.
Over the open poppy
dangle
the bee's hairy legs.
Just when I thought
it would end—
second bloom of roses.
.
Dragonflies dancing
over meditation pond—
I step lightly on stones.
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
“The Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poet’s hearts.”
“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”
“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”
“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth:
the true poet is near the oracle.”
“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
“I think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.”
“A poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.”
“All night wild impulses
The only way to find a path
is to set fire to your life.”
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.