Louis Untermeyer Quotes

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.

She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry.

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