Quotes by : Mark Van Doren

I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the....

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

The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion.....

For Tolstoy . . . anything that human beings do has its glory. . . . I think he can be said to have hated....

There is one thing we can do and the happiest people are those who do it to the limit of their ability.....

Wit is the only wall Between us and the dark.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.