Louis Untermeyer Quotes

Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.

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

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

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.

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