“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.”

About George Oppen

Poet • American

George Oppen was an influential American poet and a key figure in the Objectivist movement. After a long hiatus from writing to focus on political activism and work, he returned to poetry in the late 1950s. His...