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