“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth:
the true poet is near the oracle.”
They arrived:
White crowned, Golden-crowned sparrows—
Winter’s mark
December in the park—
river so high, air so chill
my inner thighs freeze
Could barely see them
standing in the cornfield
a hundred sandhill cranes
“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
“The Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poet’s hearts.”
“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth:
the true poet is near the oracle.”
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”
“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.”
“I think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.”
“A poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.”
“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.”
“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”
“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth:
the true poet is near the oracle.”
A poet and writer of the natural world, Terri Glass mentored under William Stafford and Robert Bly.