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George Oppen

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For the people of that flow
Are new, the old
New to age as the young
To youth

George Oppen

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I know that no one would live out
Thirty years, fifty years if the world were ending
With his life.

George Oppen

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Possible
To use
Words provided one treat them
As enemies.

George Oppen

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Imagine a man in the ditch,
The wheels of the overturned wreck
Still spinning—
I don’t mean he despairs, I mean if he does not
He sees in the manner of poetry

George Oppen

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

George Oppen

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We are pressed, pressed on each other,
We will be told at once
Of anything that happens

George Oppen

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