“In reality opposites are one; art shows this.”
Eli Siegel (1902–1978) Latvian-American poet, philosopher
Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)
“Poetry, like Art, is the oneness of the permanent opposites in reality as seen by an individual.”
Definition 18 (c) Definition Press, (New York: Definition Press, 1964)
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