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George Oppen Quotes
Page 1 of 1George Oppen
April 24, 1908 - July 7, 1984
Nationality: American
Category: Poet
Subcategory: American Poet
|  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. | | 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. | | Things explain each other, not themselves. | | The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity. | | A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule. | | There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art. | | Truth, also is the pursuit of it. | | 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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