Louis Untermeyer
Louis Untermeyer
Louis Untermeyerwas an American poet, anthologist, critic, and editor. He was appointed the fourteenth Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1961...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 October 1885
hymns miracle bread
What hymns are sung. What praises said. For homemade miracles of bread?
children dad good heap home mother palace sort takes
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
mother dad children
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.
life-is-like life-is asks
She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry.
fighting pride done
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.
stars wine night
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.
heart fighting giving
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.
spring vowels soil
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.
stars moving car
Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of stars!
writing reason instinct
Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.
defining unforgettable term
Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable.
strong wall laughter
Laughter shall drown the raucous shout;And, though these shelt'ring walls are thin,May they be strong to keep hate outAnd hold love in.
children father blessing
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.
friendship like-love support
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.