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