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
She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry.
– Louis Untermeyer
Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.
– Louis Untermeyer
Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of stars!