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 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.
Mark Van Doren
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Mark Van Doren
To fail to love is not to exist at all.
Mark Van Doren
Love Quotes
To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.
Mark Van Doren
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.