Eli Siegel Quotes

The artist created; the owner possessed.

Poetry, like Art, is the oneness of the permanent opposites in reality as seen by an individual.

So we are alone in our blood and bones and our thoughts. It seems we are separate if we want to feel that way. And yet we can look out.

ONE QUESTION I - Why?

To ourselves we are always being introduced.

If the sameness and difference of America were to become musical, it would be poetry.

In reality opposites are one; art shows this.

All art puts separateness and togetherness together. All selves want to do this.

All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.

Wrongfully to be contemptuous of other human beings is inviting mental unhealth for oneself.

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

The quiet of this afternoon is strange, haunting, awful;
Hear that buzzing in the hot grass, coming from live things; and those crows' cries from somewhere;
There is a sluggish, sad brook near here, too.
The bird is gone now, so graceful, fair as it was, And the sky has nothing but the brightness of air in it.
The clean color of air.
The sun makes it be afternoon here;...

According to Aesthetic Realism, the greatest sin that a person can have is the desire for contempt. Because as soon as you have contempt, as soon as you don't want to see another person as having the fulness that you have, you can rob that person, hurt that person, kill that person.

A person is separate from all other things and together with all other things. To understand opposites in a self, the meaning of together and separate must be seen (this meaning is like that of same and different).

An unsure person, when truth makes a point, is too often stabbed, not inspired.