Quotes by Mark Van Doren
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The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people ...
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To be what no one ever was,To be what everyone has been:Freedom is the mean of thoseExtremes that fence all effort in.
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When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because ...
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Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
mark van doren
The job of the poet is to render the world -- to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people ...
mark van doren
To fail to love is not to exist at all.
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Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
