Mark Van Doren Quotes

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Mark Van Doren

Teacher, Art, Teaching

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

Job, Feelings, Loss

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 we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.
Mark Van Doren

Love, Hard, Why

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

May, Ideas, Bring

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
Mark Van Doren

Humor, Truth, Nothing

To fail to love is not to exist at all.
Mark Van Doren

Love, Fail, Exist

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
Mark Van Doren

Dark, Between, Wall

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: June 13, 1894

Died: December 10, 1972

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