Quote by George Oppen Download Open image ““What I like more than anything is to visit other islands...”” — George Oppen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“...once you settle on an island, you never leave, an island holds on to what it has with all its might and main.” — Roy Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“As time went by, I realized that the particular place I'd chose was less important than the fact that I'd chosen a place and focused my life around it. Although the island has taken on great significance for me, it's no more inherently beautiful or meaningful than any other place on earth. What makes a place special is the way… — Richard Nelson Copy Share
“You must love the land, my children, and ring it in with your love. For the land is the most precious thing on this… — Wu Ming-Yi Copy Share Image
“Not good enough. I’m going to buy up all the land around here too. Or maybe I can find an island. We’ll make a… — Skye Warren Copy Share Image
“Islands are emblematic not only of solitude but of refuge and sanctuary, the way a small boat is an island in rough seas.” — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“We were not many, and the world was very small. There were strange lands to the east- islands like Akutan; so we thought all… — Jack London 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
