One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness. A knife that is keen is also a knife that cuts neatly; it isn't brutal. Sharpness is different… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
In order to be deep, we sometimes have to cut through and cut apart. That is to be seen in the common phrase, 'Cut it out!' The reason is that this thing is seen as superfluous and therefore it should… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too. — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
“The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker…. Labor is the only source of wealth.… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
There is a quality of murky grandeur we give ourselves in having our own feelings, recoiling, separate from other things... To feel that we… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected. — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity... — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites, — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
“The self can watch itself becoming lazy, or non-watchful; this is an asset that can make both for humor and profound well-being.” — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness. A knife… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
Is there in every work of art something which shows reality as one and also something which shows reality as many and diverse? -… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves. — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
