Children are really desperate to see the world as pleasing;… - 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.

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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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.

Shadows...bring softness to every thing. An object and its shadow are softness and hardness.

There is a disposition in every person to think he will be for himself by making less of the outside world.

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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