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Mark Van Doren

Mark Van Doren

American poet and writerWikipedia

Search complete. 3 mentions across 3 episodes found for "Mark Van Doren".

Nov 2, 2026

Brad GilmoreHOST
56:09
Because really, he's already taken the biggest hit, which is having to confess to your dad.
Jeff SmithHOST
56:17
So I see the whole quote here, and it's Mark Van Doren's the dad.
Jeff SmithHOST
56:21
He says, I'm sorry, Charlie.
Jeff SmithHOST
56:22
I'm an old man.
Peter RobbinsGUEST
49:59
The secretary's regular attendant has not shown up that night for his shift, a first, and hospital apprentice R.W. Harrison has been assigned to look in on the VIP patient on the sixteenth floor.
Peter RobbinsGUEST
50:11
Forrestal appears to be sleeping at one thirty AM, but is awake at one forty-five when the apprentice attendant finds him copying a Sophocles poem out of an anthology of poetry by, uh, edited by, uh, I think at the time, America's Poet Laureate Mark Van Doren.
Peter RobbinsGUEST
50:29
If not, he was after that.
Peter RobbinsGUEST
50:31
Uh, when the apprentice attendant finds him copying out the Sophocles poem.
Amber Allen-PeirsonGUEST
49:26
... anything else would be on my part manipulation.
Amber Allen-PeirsonGUEST
49:30
You know, one of my favorite quotes is by Mark Van Doren.
Amber Allen-PeirsonGUEST
49:34
I don't even know who he is, but I just like the quote.
Amber Allen-PeirsonGUEST
49:37
And it says, like, "A good teacher tells the student where to look, but not what to see." And-

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