The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
About George Oppen
George Oppenwas an American poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. He abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political activism and moved to Mexico in 1950 to avoid the attentions of the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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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.
American poet (1908-1984)
A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.
American poet (1908-1984)
Things explain each other, not themselves.
American poet (1908-1984)
The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
American poet (1908-1984)
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.
American poet (1908-1984)
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.
American poet (1908-1984)
Truth, also is the pursuit of it.
American poet (1908-1984)
There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.
American poet (1908-1984)