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Oppen Quotes & Sayings

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I'm fucking nuts and its contagious, get outta here. — Santiago Rodriguez

You have to be able to trust someone--At least one person--with your life if it's going to be at all worth living. — Douglas Hulick

The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on — George Oppen

The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given by those lines. — George Oppen

Think of all the different features from Asian to African to Aboriginal to Caucasian. But we are all within the same species, Homo Sapiens. — Ray Comfort

As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy. — Paul Auster

Ultimately the air
Is bare sunlight where must be found
The lyric valuable. — George Oppen

Among days// Having only the force/ Of days//Most simple/ Most difficult — George Oppen

I think there is no light in the world
but the world

and I think there is light — George Oppen

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule. — George Oppen

Truth, also is the pursuit of it. — George Oppen

George Oppen wasn't a larger than life personality, but I'm not either. And he lived a long time, so he was happy. Going down in flames is fine, too. — Stephen Malkmus

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art. — George Oppen

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity. — George Oppen

But no matter my value, I am marred. Someone had me, then threw me away. Who would want such a used thing? — Pierce Brown

Only one mistake, Ezra! You should have talked to women. — George Oppen

Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not. — Leo Tolstoy

It is necessary to study these words you have written, for the words have a longer history than you have and say more than you know. — George Oppen

What I like more than anything is to visit other islands... — George Oppen

In the world even the best things are worthless without those who represent them: those representers, the people call great men. Little — Friedrich Nietzsche

[It is not] the poet's business to use verse as an advanced form of rhetoric, nor to give to political statements the aura of eternal truth. — George Oppen

I do think once I get into expectations, I've just trained myself. I've just trained myself to just move on to the next. — Eva Mendes

All that I am. All that I will be is defined by this moment. — Truth Devour

Things explain each other, not themselves. — George Oppen