Eli Siegel: Quotes about the world

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

Eli Siegel: 38 quotes2 likes

“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

“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)

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

Self and World (1957)

“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?”

Self and World (1957)

“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)