Children are really desperate to see the world as pleasing; and their desperateness is part of a wise hope. - Eli Siegel

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Children are really desperate to see the world as pleasing; and their desperateness is part of a wise hope.

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About Eli Siegel

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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