Writing poetry is letting your mind dance in the rain — no galoshes,
—Terri Guillemets
Writing poetry is letting your mind dance in the rain — no galoshes,
—Terri Guillemets
Flowers rewrite soil, water, and sunshine into petal’d poetry.
—Terri Guillemets
Autumn birds speak cheerful poetry from their berry-stained beaks.
—Terri Guillemets
Poetry — soul cartography.
—Terri Guillemets
The poet is a sensitive snail
wandering along the path of life
leaving a glittering trail of words.
—Terri Guillemets
An author can be just a writer, but a translator must always be a poet.
—Terri Guillemets
Prose is poetry that can’t stop talking.
—Terri Guillemets
My poems are love-drunk letters to the universe.
—Terri Guillemets
Her head was cracked—
not tragically, just poetically.
It’s how all the poems got in,
—and out.
—Terri Guillemets
The smell of ink is intoxicating to me — others may have wine, but I have poetry.
—Terri Guillemets
Happiness is sharing a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry with a shade tree.
—Terri Guillemets
Your prayer can be poetry, and poetry can be your prayer.
—Terri Guillemets