“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
Delicate repose
a butterfly balances
on a petal's tip.
Sneak preview
through lush green foliage
one purple finch.
Cherry tree blooms
against my bedroom window
 keeps me up all night.
Come see my poetry
wall art of endangered species
in two locations in Crescent City.
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“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.”
“A poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.”
“The Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poet’s hearts.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“I think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
A poet and writer of the natural world, Terri Glass mentored under William Stafford and Robert Bly.