Savor sumptuous prose essays and articles written by Bay Area poet, writer, and teacher Terri Glass, who writes about such topics as the healing powers of poetry, the destruction of the planet, and her mentorship by Robert Bly.
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 the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
“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.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”
“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
“The Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poet’s hearts.”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
“All night wild impulses
The only way to find a path
is to set fire to your life.”
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”
“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth:
the true poet is near the oracle.”
“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”
“I think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
Savor sumptuous prose essays and articles written by Bay Area poet, writer, and teacher Terri Glass, who writes about such topics as the healing powers of poetry, the destruction of the planet, and her mentorship by Robert Bly.
A poet and writer of the natural world, Terri Glass mentored under William Stafford and Robert Bly.