To fail to love is not to exist at all.
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Hope is thrustLike wind away, and love sinks into lust
For merest safety, meanest of levelers.
Mark Van Doren
Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
Mark Van Doren
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
That God should love me is more wonderful
Than that I so imperfectly love him.
Mark Van Doren
Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
Mark Van Doren
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
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