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Mark Van Doren Quotes
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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
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Between
,
Wall
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Biography
Nationality:
American
Type:
Poet
Born:
June 13
, 1894
Died:
December 10
, 1972
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