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

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

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 g…

- Louis Untermeyer

Laughter shall drown the raucous shout; And, though these shelt'ring walls are thin, May they be strong to keep hate out And hold love in.

- Louis Untermeyer

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

- 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!

- Louis Untermeyer

Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable.

- Louis Untermeyer

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

- Louis Untermeyer

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…

- Louis Untermeyer