Louis Untermeyer
Louis Untermeyer
Louis Untermeyerwas an American poet, anthologist, critic, and editor. He was appointed the fourteenth Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1961...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 October 1885
friendship like-love support
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.
home hymns miracle
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?
strong wall laughter
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.
defining unforgettable term
Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable.
life-is-like life-is asks
She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry.
spring vowels soil
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.
fighting pride done
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.
hymns miracle bread
What hymns are sung. What praises said. For homemade miracles of bread?