Poetry, like Art, is the oneness of the permanent opposites… - Eli Siegel

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

Eli Siegel

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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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In reality opposites are one; art shows this.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Friedrich Nietzsche Jean Cocteau Andrei Tarkovsky Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The world should be owned by the people living in it. Every person should be seen as living in a world truly his. All persons should be seen as living in a world truly theirs.

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

To ourselves we are always being introduced.

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

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