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George Oppen
American
Poet
About the author
Truth, also is the pursuit of it.
George Oppen,
American
Poet
#Truth
#Pursuit
A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.
George Oppen,
American
Poet
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,
American
Poet
#World
#Motive
#Poetry
#Clarity
The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
George Oppen,
American
Poet
#Time
#First
#Question
#Poetry
#Sincerity
#Honesty
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,
American
Poet
#People
#Old
#Theory
#Realism
There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.
George Oppen,
American
Poet
#Art
Things explain each other, not themselves.
George Oppen,
American
Poet
A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.
George Oppen,
American
Poet
#Character
#Reason
#Poems