~ Mark Van Doren Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

Mark Van Doren Quotes


An American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, writer and a critic, apart from being a scholar and a professor of English at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, where he inspired a generation of influential writers and thinkers including, Thomas Merton, John Berryman, and Beat Generation writers...
Mark Van Doren (June 13, 1894 – December 10, 1972) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, writer and a critic, apart from being a scholar and a professor of English at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, where he inspired a generation of influential writers and thinkers including, Thomas Merton, John Berryman, and Beat Generation writers such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac.

Here are some famous quotes by Mark Van Doren.

Wit is the only wall Between us and the dark.

[MysteRy]

There is one thing we can do and the happiest people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present. We can be all here. We can ... give all our attention to the opportunity before us.