Louis Untermeyer Quotes

• Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!

  Louis Untermeyer

  Funny, Drinking, Beer

  Louis Untermeyer (1930). “Blue Rhine, Black Forest: A Hand- & Day-book”

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• Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable.

  Louis Untermeyer

  Defining, Unforgettable, Term

  Louis Untermeyer (1969). “The pursuit of poetry: a guide to its understanding and appreciation with an explanation of its forms and a dictionary of poetic terms”, Simon & Schuster

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• Friendship is like love at its best; not blind but sympathetically all-seeing; a support which does not wait for understanding; an act of faith which does not need, but always has, reason.

  Louis Untermeyer

  Friendship, Like Love, Support

  Louis Untermeyer (1939). “From another world: the autobiography of Louis Untermeyer”

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• Come, drink the mystic wine of Night, Brimming with silence and the stars; While earth, bathed in this holy light, Is seen without its scars.

  Louis Untermeyer

  Stars, Wine, Night

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• God, though this life is but a wraith, Although we know not what we use, Although we grope with little faith, Give me the heart to fight and lose.

  Louis Untermeyer

  Heart, Fighting, Giving

  Louis Untermeyer (1935). “Selected poems and parodies of Louis Untermeyer”

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• Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.

  Louis Untermeyer

  Work, Writing, Reason

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• Laughter shall drown the raucous shout;
  And, though these shelt'ring walls are thin,
  May they be strong to keep hate out
  And hold love in.

  Louis Untermeyer

  Strong, Wall, Laughter

  "Prayer for This House". Poem by Louis Untermeyer, www.poemhunter.com.

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• Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of stars!

  Louis Untermeyer

  Stars, Moving, Car

  LOUIS UNTERMEYER (1921). “MODERN AMERICAN POETRY”

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• From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied.

  Louis Untermeyer

  Fighting, Pride, Done

  Louis Untermeyer (1935). “Selected poems and parodies of Louis Untermeyer”

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• Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung, what praises said For home-made miracles of bread?

  Louis Untermeyer

  Home, Hymns, Miracle

  "Food and Drink".

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• She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry.

  Louis Untermeyer

  Life Is Like, Life Is, Asks

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• Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse?a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.

  Louis Untermeyer

  Spring, Vowels, Soil

  1965 Bygones.

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• What hymns are sung.
  What praises said.
  For homemade miracles of bread?

  Louis Untermeyer

  Hymns, Miracle, Bread

  Louis Untermeyer (1932). “Food and Drink”

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• And fathers are a blessing, too, they give the place a tone;
  In fact each child should try and have some parents of its own.

  Louis Untermeyer

  Children, Father, Blessing

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• It takes a heap o' children to make a home that's true,And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe;But if it has a mother dear, and a good old dad or two,Why, that's the sort of good old home for good old me and you.

  Louis Untermeyer

  Mother, Children, Dad

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