The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses. — George Oppen Copy Share Image
A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
“There are things We live among ‘and to see them Is to know ourselves’.” — George Oppen Copy Share Image
“Ultimately the air Is bare sunlight where must be found The lyric valuable.” — George Oppen Copy Share Image
“Among days// Having only the force/ Of days//Most simple/ Most difficult” — George Oppen Copy Share Image
It is necessary to study these words you have written, for the words have a longer history than you have and say more than… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule. — George Oppen Copy Share Image
“I think there is no light in the world but the world and I think there is light” — George Oppen Copy Share Image
The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on — George Oppen Copy Share Image
