“All night wild impulses
The only way to find a path
is to set fire to your life.”
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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“Wine is bottled poetry.”
“All night wild impulses
The only way to find a path
is to set fire to your life.”
“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“I think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.”
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
“A poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.”
“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 sort of a homecoming.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”
“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
“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.”
“The Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poet’s hearts.”
“All night wild impulses
The only way to find a path
is to set fire to your life.”
A poet and writer of the natural world, Terri Glass mentored under William Stafford and Robert Bly.