Quotes Mark Van Doren

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them m...

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it i...

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery....

The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and r...

To fail to love is not to exist at all....

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to co...

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark....

Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after e...

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery....

There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which m...