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George Oppen [1908-1984] American

Rank: 104
Poet

George Oppen was an American poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. He abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political activism and later moved to Mexico to avoid the attentions of the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Poetry

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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.	Poetry	101
The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.	Poetry	102
Truth, also is the pursuit of it.		103
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.		104
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.		105
A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.		106
There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.		107
Things explain each other, not themselves.		108

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