 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.
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.

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