Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
7227
AUTHOR:
Mark Van Doren
QUOTATION:
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.
ATTRIBUTION:
On poetry and the world, The Autobiography of Mark Van Doren Harcourt Brace 58
