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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. ”

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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. I always assume they have good minds.

~ Mark Van Doren

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

~ Mark Van Doren

For Tolstoy . . . anything that human beings do has its glory. . . . I think he can be said to have hated nothing that ever happened.

~ Mark Van Doren

Wit is the only wall Between us and the dark.

~ Mark Van Doren