Untermeyer Louis Quotes & Sayings

The real dance is a spontaneous body movement that in harmony with the beats of the music in your heart. — Toba Beta

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

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

The unfolding time for the end of globalization or a worldwide deflation is much longer, certainly measured in years, if not decades. — John L. Casti

Alone,alone! It is a fact, you hear more acutely and you see and think most acutely,when you are alone.
Alone, alone! But there is happiness in alone, if you believe you have chosen it. — Joyce Carol Oates

There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on. — Alan Ball

My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't wealthy, but we were well-off. — Julia Child

Black children need waves of present, multifaceted love, not simply present fathers. — Kiese Laymon

In January the lavender heather and white candytufts would bloom. February perked up the plum tree, and March would bring forth the daffodils, narcissus, and moonlight bloom. April lilacs and sugartuft would blossom along with the pink and bloodred rhododendrons, bluebells, and the apple tree in the victory garden. As the weather warmed, miniature purple irises would rise amid the volunteers of white alyssum and verbena. The roses, dahlias, white Shasta daisies, black-eyed Susans, and marigolds would bloom from late spring to early fall. Leota could see it. She knew exactly — Francine Rivers

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

Dynamic typing is not necessarily good. You get static errors at run time, which you really should be able to catch at compile time. — Rob Pike

Making a moonshot is almost more an exercise in creativity than it is in technology. — Astro Teller

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

I give everything to my work, and I like complex roles, characters that aren't obvious. I've been very lucky so far, and I'm dreaming of working with directors like Jane Campion, Susanne Bier and the Dardennes. But the gods will decide. — Eva Green

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

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

Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation. — Charles Dickens

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

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