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