Quotes by Mark van Doren

Mark van Doren

American poet, writer and critic

Lived from: 1894 - 1972

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: United States

Born: 13 june 1894 Died: 10 december 1972

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• Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

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• The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

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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.

  ― Mark Van Doren
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• To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

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• To fail to love is not to exist at all.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• sentimental
• assisting
• discovery
• feelings
• everyone
• extremes

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