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