Eli Siegel: Quotes about the world

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

Eli Siegel: 38 quotes 2 likes

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

Eli Siegel

Self and World (1957)

World , Beauty , Personality

“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.”

Eli Siegel

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

Life , World , Reality , Universe

“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.”

Eli Siegel

Self and World (1957)

People , World , Personality

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

Eli Siegel

Self and World (1957)

Children , World , Hope , Parting

“There is a deep and "dialectic" duality facing every human being, which can be put this way: How is he to be entirely himself, and yet be fair to that world which he does not see as himself?”

Eli Siegel

Self and World (1957)

World , Way

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

Eli Siegel

Self and World (1957)

World , Thinking , Personality