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