10 inspirational mark van doren quotes on success

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
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.
Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
That God should love me is more wonderful
Than that I so imperfectly love him.
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.
When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.
I love the fall. I love it because of the smells that you speak of and also because things are dying, things that you don’t have to take care of anymore, and the grass stops growing.
Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
To fail to love is not to exist at all.
Memory holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life… the companion… the tutor, the poet, the library, with which you travel.