Untermeyer Quotes & Sayings

What is the unmistakable mark of a wise man? It is Love, Love for all humanity. — Sathya Sai Baba

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

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

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

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

Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable. — Louis Untermeyer

It didn't escape me that he couldn't seem to stop finding reasons to touch me.
Nor did I miss that I didn't want him to stop. — Becca Fitzpatrick

Is it truly worth saving your life if you lose your soul in the process? — Aprilynne Pike

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

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

In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture - it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener. — Jamaica Kincaid

A man who gets up very early creates a new day within the same day! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

So
Walter Arensberg,
Alfred Kreymborg,
Carl Sandburg,
Louis Untermeyer,
Eunice Tietjens,
Clara Shanafelt,
James Oppenheim,
Maxwell Bodenheim,
Richard Glaenzer,
Scharmel Iris,
Conrad Aiken,
I place your names here
So that you may live
If only as names,
Sinuous, mauve-colored names,
In the Juvenalia
Of my collected editions. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Paulie Pastrami learned that a misunderstanding could often be settled with a cupcake. — James Proimos

A startup will always prefer to work with an IP attorney, who believes in their idea, not one, who is only bothered about billing. — Kalyan C. Kankanala

Does Being Happy simply Create More Time, in the way that Being Sad, as we all know, slows time and thickens it, like cornstarch in a sauce?), — Claire Messud

Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer! — Louis Untermeyer

He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying up, on every side. There was another vessel before them, toiling and labouring in the howling storm: her canvas fluttering in ribbons from the mast. — Charles Dickens

Everyone has a Chameleon in them.. as we change colors depending on our own Convenience ... !!! — Abhijeet Sawant

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

Reid turned to Jax and with nothing more than a look, they said more things in three seconds than most women could say in three hours.
Thanks for always being there for me.
No problem, you've done the same for me.
I love your sister, man, I'll do whatever it takes to make her happy.
I know you do, and I know you will. Plus, if you don't, I'll break your fucking legs.
Fair enough.
Then let's do this.
Hell yeah. — Gina L. Maxwell

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

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

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

True prayer is not a prelude to inaction. — Mahatma Gandhi

What hymns are sung.
What praises said.
For homemade miracles of bread? — Louis Untermeyer

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

Anxiety, as neuropsychologists today tell us, is toxic; our brains are wired to avoid anxiety. Anxiety corrupts the chemistry of the brain and leads us to depart (emotionally or physically) from others to protect ourselves. Jesus's words to his disciples "to fear not" (Luke 8:50 NRSV) become of utmost significance. Anxiety is so acidic that it is nearly impossible to have relationship, to be a place-sharer, where the air is poisoned with it. Bonhoeffer's calm and composure, even on the first day, signaled to the boys that he had no anxiety, no worry about lessons being unfinished or others thinking he was a failure. His composure signaled to them that it might be that he is really just here for them, rather than to fulfill some goal that they could frustrate (like getting them through the material). Bonhoeffer's composure tacitly indicated to the boys that he was more loyal to their concrete persons than any end others sought for them. — Andrew Root