“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”
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.”
“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”
“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”
“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
“I think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.”
“All night wild impulses
The only way to find a path
is to set fire to your life.”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
“A poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.”
“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.”
“The Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poet’s hearts.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”
“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”
A poet and writer of the natural world, Terri Glass mentored under William Stafford and Robert Bly.