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 Books by and about Louis Untermeyer
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Ambition
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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, Prayer (last verse)
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Authors & Writing
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Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.
-Louis Untermeyer
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Bread
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What hymns are sung.
What praises said.
For homemade miracles of bread?
-Louis Untermeyer
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Laughter
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Laughter shall drown the raucous shout;
And, though these shelt
-Louis Untermeyer, Prayer for This House (l. 13
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Literary
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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, Caliban in the Coal Mines
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