Hard Quote by Mark Van Doren

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

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

— Mark Van Doren

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.

— Mark Van Doren

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

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

“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

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

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

— Mark Van Doren

The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated.

— Mark Van Doren

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

Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste.

— Mark Van Doren

“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