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 bee drops
into a poppy's cup-
what a life!
Like a shy lover
butterfly bush gently greets
my climbing jasmine.
Near my bird feeder
Mourning dove serenely sat
 while jays ate all the seed.
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“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.”
“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.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”
“The Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poet’s hearts.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“A poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
“I think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.”
“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”
“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth:
the true poet is near the oracle.”
“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
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.