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George Oppen Inspirational Quotes (6)

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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.
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Things explain each other, not themselves.
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The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on
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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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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.
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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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