Mark Doren
Mark Doren
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, author, and scholar whose best-known works include Collected Poems: 1922-1938 and A Liberal Education. He was the 1967 recipient of an Academy of American Poets Fellowship.
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth13 June 1894
bring entertain ideas
Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
humorous man serious sign wants
Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
effort extremes fence freedom mean
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