Firsts Quote by George Oppen Download Open image “The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.” — George Oppen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Firsts Honesty Poetry Sincerity Time Truth
“Robert Frost didn’t like to explain his poems—and for good reason: to explain a poem is to suck the air from its lungs. This… — Tony Leuzzi Copy Share Image
People have explored these questions ['Why am I here?', 'What is life about?'] in poems, not that they found their answers, but in reading… — Gwee Li Sui Copy Share Image
“Will asked the same questions as many times as he’d read the verse. What did Keats want to do, why would it take so… — Will Willingham Copy Share Image
“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses. — Vicente Aleixandre Copy Share Image
Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
“There are things We live among ‘and to see them Is to know ourselves’.” — George Oppen Copy Share Image
“Ultimately the air Is bare sunlight where must be found The lyric valuable.” — George Oppen Copy Share Image
“Among days// Having only the force/ Of days//Most simple/ Most difficult” — George Oppen Copy Share Image
It is necessary to study these words you have written, for the words have a longer history than you have and say more than… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule. — George Oppen Copy Share Image
“I think there is no light in the world but the world and I think there is light” — George Oppen Copy Share Image
The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on — George Oppen Copy Share Image
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