George Oppen Quotes

• Things explain each other, not themselves.

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• 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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• 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.

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

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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.

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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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• There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

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• Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

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George Oppen (8)

Birth:	24th April, 1908
Death:	7th July, 1984
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Poet

About

George Oppen was born in New Rochelle, New York, USA. He was an American poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. He wrote several poetry books include: The Materials,  This in Which, Of Being Numerous(won Pulitzer Prize), Seascape: needle's eye, and Primitive.

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