Louis Untermeyer Quotes

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

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Louis Untermeyer

Louis Untermeyer (October 1, 1885 – December 18, 1977) was an American poet, anthologist, critic, and editor. He was appointed the fourteenth Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1961.

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Louis Untermeyer

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

ambition people feel small ambitions great
Louis Untermeyer

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

stars cars god love
Louis Untermeyer

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

poetry life
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.

poet poets muse soil
Louis Untermeyer

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.

dad home
Louis Untermeyer

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.

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