Quote by George Oppen Download Open image “Things explain each other, not themselves.” — George Oppen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand. — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
One is not likely to achieve understanding from the explanation of another. — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
Some things cannot be explained. This is part of the magic of life. There cannot be a word or an idea or a definition… — Jim James Copy Share Image
I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine. — Edie Sedgwick Copy Share Image
I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly. — Anonymous 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
