• 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 do.

  Mark Van Doren
  American poet, writer and critic 1894-1972
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. sentimental
2. feelings
3. people
4. about

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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 do. by : Mark Van Doren

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