Things explain each other, not themselves.
More Quotes from George Oppen:
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
A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.
George Oppen
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.
George Oppen
There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.
George Oppen
The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
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