Books Quote by Mark Van Doren Download Open image “The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated.” — Mark Van Doren ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Inspirational Literature Love World
Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“Literature is, to my mind, the great teaching power of the world, the ultimate creator of all values, and it is this, not only… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the relationship between… — Rebecca L. Walkowitz Copy Share Image
I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny. — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
However, there is one great temptation and that is that you can forget that the aim of the writer was to reject all other… — Ventseslav Konstantinov Copy Share Image
Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation — John Felstiner Copy Share Image
Good literature always ends up showing those who read it... the inevitable limitation of all power to fulfill human aspirations and desires. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The Transformation of the World is lavishly reinforced with critical apparatus (that, too, must have been a labor of Hercules to translate--I honestly never… — Steve Donoghue Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like… — Ursula K. Le Guin 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… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
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
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
“There is one thing we can do, and the happiest people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
