Van Doren Shaw

Famous quotes containing the words van doren, van, doren and/or shaw:

    For him nor deep nor hill there is,
    But all’s one level plain he hunts for flowers.
    —Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.

    AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)

    There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.
    —Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890)

    But I am here,
    And they are far, and time is old.
    Within my dream the grass is cold;
    The legs and locked; the sky is dead.
    —Mark Van Doren (1894–1973)

    Martyrdom ... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)