Louis Untermeyer Quotes

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

Louis Untermeyer

Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung and praises said For the home made miracle of bread?

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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

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

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

Louis Untermeyer

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

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

Louis Untermeyer

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

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

Louis Untermeyer

Louis Untermeyer

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Born: October 1, 1885

Died: December 18, 1977 (aged 92)

Bio: Louis Untermeyer was an American poet, anthologist, critic, and editor. He was appointed the fourteenth Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1961.

Known for:

Modern British Poetry (1920)
Makers of the Modern World (1955)
The Pursuit of Poetry (1969)
A Treasury of Ribaldry (1956)
Robert Frost's Poems (1946)

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