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!
Autumn leaves scatter
like broken shards of a cup
across the forest floor.
Cold overcast morning
the neighborhood, no one dares
 to get out of bed.
“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth:
the true poet is near the oracle.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
“The Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poet’s hearts.”
“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
“A poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.”
“I think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”
“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”
“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.”
“All night wild impulses
The only way to find a path
is to set fire to your life.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
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.