Louis Untermeyer Quotes
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Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!
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Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.
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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.
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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!
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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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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…
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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…
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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,…
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