“I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.”
Quotes by Mark Van Doren
“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. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.”
Mark Van DorenMark Van Doren was an influential American poet, writer, and critic, whose academic career spanned nearly four decades at Columbia University. He inspired a generation of notable writers and thinkers,...