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George Oppen
 
Date of birth: 24 April 1908
Date of death: 07 July 1984
Country Of Origin: America
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Poet

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Oppen was born in New Rochelle, New York, New York. His father, George August Oppenheimer, was a successful diamond merchant who changed the family name to Oppen in 1927. His childhood was one of considerable affluence; the family was well tended to by servants and maids and Oppen enjoyed all the benefits of a wealthy upbringing: horse riding, expensive automobiles, frequent trips to Europe. Oppen's mother committed suicide when he was four a .... (More...)
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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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" 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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" I had in mind specifically the meaning to the mathematician - a series of empirically true terms. "

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

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

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" Things explain each other, not themselves. "

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" Truth, also is the pursuit of it. "

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