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
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Memory holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life... the companion... the tutor, the poet, the library, with which you travel.
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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
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Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
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When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.
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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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Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
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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