Louis Untermeyer Quotes

#1. 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.

Louis Untermeyer

#2. 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.

Louis Untermeyer

#3. 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.

Louis Untermeyer

#4. Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.

Albert Hadley

#5. 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?

Louis Untermeyer

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

Louis Untermeyer

#7. In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights.

Alexander Smith

#8. If you can create community in a classroom the kids will not drop out

Martin Haberman

#9. In dreams begin responsibilities.

W.B.Yeats

#10. 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.

Louis Untermeyer

#11. 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.

Louis Untermeyer

#12. The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings, opens the way for mourning and - with luck - reconciliation.

Alice Miller

#13. We are always in awe of what the donors have done in terms of providing of themselves to the recipients. It really is a heroic act because people take on themselves not only a risk of death but also pain-and-suffering in order for their loved one to get the benefit of the liver transplant.

John Roberts

#14. Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars ... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of stars!

Louis Untermeyer

#15. Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable.

Louis Untermeyer

#16. Folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done.

George Eliot

#17. The more intelligent the storytelling becomes and the deeper the character development, people will realize in film and television, like they do in real life, that human beings possess both good and bad.

Robert LaSardo

#18. 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.

Louis Untermeyer

#19. The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.

Gloria Naylor

#20. 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

#21. Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!

Louis Untermeyer

#22. 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.

Louis Untermeyer

#23. Bring a smile to her beautiful face. He needed to get her mind

J.E.B. Spredemann

#24. One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.

Vito Fossella

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

Louis Untermeyer

#26. You know, it's hard to say what's going to happen in the future. But, if I stay healthy, I think I'll probably play until I'm about 40.

Karrie Webb

#27. What hymns are sung.
What praises said.
For homemade miracles of bread?

Louis Untermeyer

#28. You guys like impressions? Why?

Bo Burnham