"Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the……" — Louis Untermeyer
"Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!"
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Louis Untermeyer
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8 Quotes by Louis Untermeyer
Louis Untermeyer has 8 quotes on this site.
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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,…
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Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us…
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Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung and praises said For the…
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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;…
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From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is…
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Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and…
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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
— Karen Armstrong
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
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This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at…
— James L. Buckley
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
— Albert Camus
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And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.
— George Carlin
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Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I,…
— George Arnold
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Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!
— William Shakespeare
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In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my…
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose…
— Tom Robbins
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Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and…
— Horace
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