Poetry, like Art, is the oneness of the permanent opposites in reality as seen by an individual.
Eli Siegel Quotes
1902–1978 Latvia
Eli Siegel (August 16, 1902 – November 8, 1978) was the poet, critic, and educator who founded Aesthetic Realism, the philosophy that sees reality as the aesthetic oneness of opposites.
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26 quotes
Every person in order to respect himself has to see the world as beautiful or good or acceptable.
Self and World (1957)
Self and World (1957)
Self and World (1957)
Aesthetics is related to every particular conflict; to everyday conflict.
Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)
Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)
An unsure person, when truth makes a point, is too often stabbed, not inspired.
Aesthetics is the one fundamental means a person has of liking himself.
Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)
No self can truly know itself and be ashamed.
Self and World (1957)
In reality opposites are one; art shows this.
Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)
To ourselves we are always being introduced.
The artist created; the owner possessed.
Self and World (1957)
If you like yourself for the wrong reason, you will dislike yourself for the right reason.
If the sameness and difference of America were to become musical, it would be poetry.
A friend is a person who takes care of himself by being friendly to you.
Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.
A pessimist is a person who finds an oyster in a pearl.
If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.
Don't shake the hand of reality with one finger.
Self and World (1957)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eli Siegel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.