“ [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
“ The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity. George Oppen
“ Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity. George Oppen
