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Mark Van Doren

American Poet

Born: Jun 13, 1894

Died: Dec 10, 1972

Conceal Dark Express King Us World

Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman

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

Love World Other Aims Though Must Conceal Fail Because Exist Refuses To Love Hard Reasons Many Express Why

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark. Mark Van Doren

Dark Only Between Wit Wall Us

The genius of the Marx Brothers is for parody. They never are themselves. They exist too abundantly to be content with being that - they must go on, by the rapidest of transitions, to being something else. Groucho, in my opinion the bright star among the three, is never anything but the thing he is at the moment pretending to be. Mark Van Doren

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