top of page
.png){kind=small}
"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."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Character quotes
"Our behavior to ordinary people depicts our actual nature."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The beauty of the soul is wrapped in modest fashion."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is better to be gentle than rude."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Developing a true and solid character and finding unique traits that belong to only you is a foundational thing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The kindest mind is the most beautiful mind!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love, but respect for criticism; intelligence without pretense; humility without self-loathing; and a mind open, but with solid convictions."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Be the type of man a wife would cherish and a child would admire."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call 'humble' nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is nobody.Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him.If you do dislike him it will be because you feel a little envious of anyone who seems to enjoy life so easily. He will not be thinking about humility: he will not be thinking about himself at all."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents."
Author Name
Personal Development
Explore more quotes by 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."
Character
"The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity."
Poetry
"Truth, also is the pursuit of it."
Truth
"There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art."
Art
"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."
People
"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."
Poetry
bottom of page