George Oppen Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as one might want a picture of a place he loves.”
-- George Oppen

#Art #Poetry #Records
“The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.”
-- George Oppen

#Honesty #Firsts #Sincerity
“There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.”
-- George Oppen

#Art #Mets #Situation
“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.”
-- George Oppen

#Beautiful #World #Clarity
“A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.”
-- George Oppen

#Would Be #Mathematical #Term
“Things explain each other, not themselves.”
-- George Oppen
“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 know.”
-- George Oppen

#Study
“The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on”
-- George Oppen

#Self #Mystery

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