Untermeyer Quotes

#1. Changing one's mind about human nature is hard work, and changing one's mind for the worse about oneself is even harder. Nisbett

Daniel Kahneman

#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. 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

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

Louis Untermeyer

#6. U.S. Government propaganda tries to give the impression that aerial bombardment achieves near-surgical accuracy, so that military targets can be destroyed with minimal effect on civilians. Technical documents give a different picture.

Noam Chomsky

#7. But at some point, Bennett had become it for me. As in it it. The One. And it was fucking terrifying.

Christina Lauren

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear

Bruce Springsteen

#11. Thus Gonzo, incendiarist and leader of men.

Nick Harkaway

#12. 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

#13. Humor is the balance of the tonal. Within the tonal you've got reason and humor. The two balance each other so that the tonal can accept and understand the journeys into the nagual.

Frederick Lenz

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

Louis Untermeyer

#15. I want Ron to stand up to Malfoy and punish him.

Rupert Grint

#16. 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

#17. How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#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. 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

#20. If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

Alex Noble

#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. I'm not someone who plays hard to get. This whole thing about 'Oh, let's exchange numbers' and then people wait four or five days before they call you? I don't see the point. If you feel something, why would you let that pass? You only live once.

Heidi Klum

#24. And the rats eat my face. So what.

Sarah Kane

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

Louis Untermeyer

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

Louis Untermeyer