George Oppen Quotes

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• The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
• There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.
• 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…
• A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.
• Things explain each other, not themselves.
• 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…
• The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on
• 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…
• 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…
• Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

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