Quotes by George Oppen

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

#George Oppen

Things explain each other, not themselves.

#George Oppen

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

#George Oppen

The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed...

#George Oppen

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of...

#George Oppen

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the...

#George Oppen

A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each...

#George Oppen

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the Most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting...

#Clarity