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To be what no one ever was,To be what everyone has been:Freedom is the mean of thoseExtremes that fence all effort in.
-Mark Van Doren
Freedom
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
Love
To fail to love is not to exist at all.
-Mark Van Doren
Poetry
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
Teaching
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
-Mark Van Doren
Books by and about Mark Van Doren
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