Richard Armour Quotes

Richard Willard Armour was an American poet and author who wrote over sixty-five books. Armour was born in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California. His father was a druggist, and Armour's autobiographical Drug Store Days recalls his childhood in both San Pedro and Pomona. He attended Pomona College and Harvard University, where he studied with the eminent Shakespearean scholar George Lyman Kittredge and obtained a Ph.D. in English philology. He eventually became Professor of  English at Scripps College and the Claremont Graduate School in Claremont, California.