Eli Siegel: Quotes about personality

Eli Siegel was Latvian-American poet, philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on personality.

Eli Siegel: 38 quotes2 likes

“Aesthetics is the one fundamental means a person has of liking himself.”

Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)

“Every person in order to respect himself has to see the world as beautiful or good or acceptable.”

Self and World (1957)

“Poetry, like life, states that the very self of a thing is its relations, its having-to-do-with other things. Whatever is in the world, whatever person, has meaning because it or he has to do with the whole universe: immeasurable and crowded reality. The technique of poetry aims for the intensification of a thing through showing the likeness of what is in that thing to something else--to everything else, as different.”

Preface, Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems, 1957

“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).”

Self and World (1957)

“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.”

Self and World (1957)

“Art is internal and external. The repose a person feels in aesthetic creation comes from his, for the time, feeling he is what he is and also what he is not. Ego and otherness don't fight for the while. The artist feels he has reached form in the deepest places of his personality, because things outside himself have been see courageously, truly, respectfully by him.”

Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)

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

Self and World (1957)