Mark Van Doren Quotes
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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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Author Details:
Type:
Poet Quotes
Category:
American Poet Quotes
Date of Birth:
June 13, 1894
Date of Death:
December 10, 1972
Nationality:
American
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Related Authors:
Maya Angelou
Ogden Nash
Robert Frost
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edgar Allan Poe
Walt Whitman
Langston Hughes
Emily Dickinson
T. S. Eliot
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Quote Keywords:

Ever,
Feelings,
Job,
Loss,
Only,
Perversion,
Poet,
Render,
Report,
See,
Sentimental,
Talks,
Without,
World
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Dictionary Links:

Ever,
Job,
Loss,
Only,
Perversion,
Poet,
Render,
Report,
See,
Sentimental,
Without,
World
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