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