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Poet Quotes
Category:
American Poet Quotes
Date of Birth:
April 24, 1908
Date of Death:
July 7, 1984
Nationality:
American
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George Oppen

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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.
George Oppen

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

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

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

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

Things explain each other, not themselves.
George Oppen

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.
George Oppen



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