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.

Mark van Doren

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It is astonishing how few stories have been told perfectly.

Mark van Doren


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

Mark van Doren

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An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.

Mark van Doren


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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.

Mark van Doren


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