Famous Quotes / Mark van Doren
9 Quotations by Mark van Doren
- 1. Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
- 2. The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
- 3. The job of the poet is to render the world -- to see it and report it without loss, without perversi ...
- 4. There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that ...
- 5. There is one thing we can do, and the happiest people are those who do it to the limit of their abil ...
- 6. To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that ...
- 7. To fail to love is not to exist at all.
- 8. When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is ...
- 9. Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.