Here Terri shares links to her favorite writing, poetry, and educational organizations to encourage your participation in the larger writing community.
They arrived
white-crowned, golden-crowned sparrows—
winter's mark.
Frost on top of snow
my boots create the crunch
of potato chips.
Seven robins dot
the empty lot next door
 soon snowmelt.
“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”
“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.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”
“All night wild impulses
The only way to find a path
is to set fire to your life.”
“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.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth:
the true poet is near the oracle.”
“A poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.”
“The Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poet’s hearts.”
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”
Here Terri shares links to her favorite writing, poetry, and educational organizations to encourage your participation in the larger writing community.
A poet and writer of the natural world, Terri Glass mentored under William Stafford and Robert Bly.