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

 

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.


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This quote is just one of 8 total Mark Van Doren quotes in our collection. Mark Van Doren is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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

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.

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

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.

Mark Van Doren

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Mark Van Doren