Quote by Mark Van Doren Download Open image ““It is astonishing how few stories have been told perfectly.”” — Mark Van Doren ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“It's hard to do, to tell one story, when there are so many stories to tell.” — Bernie Mcgill Copy Share Image
“There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never been told.” — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“We all tell stories--to ourselves and to each other. Some of learn to tell only the most interesting bits.” — Shannon Donnelly Copy Share Image
“Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I am surprised to see how much I have written; with stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that people often let extraordinary stories pass through them quite unheeded.” — Michelle Lovric Copy Share Image
“And the stories we tell ourselves are not the only stories.” — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Copy Share Image
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… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love,… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
The connectedness of things is what the educator contemplates to the limit of his capacity. No human capacity is great enough to permit a… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you.… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
“Nothing stays not even change, That can grow tired of it's own name; The very thought too much for it. Somewhere in air a stillness is, So far, so thin- But let it alone. Whoever we are it is not for us” — Mark Van Doren Copy Share
The genius of the Marx Brothers is for parody. They never are themselves. They exist too abundantly to be content with being that -… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king. — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated. — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
I love the fall. I love it because of the smells that you speak of; and also because things are dying, things that you… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
