"The situation of the Old Left was the……" — 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."
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10 Quotes by George Oppen
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The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
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There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.
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Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and…
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A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.
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Things explain each other, not themselves.
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It is necessary to study these words you have written, for the words have a longer history than you have…
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The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on
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A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically…
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Truth, also is the pursuit of it.
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