133. The tearful things the wind has to tell should be better understood.
134. Ice is a way water has of telling you, you shouldn't make up your mind about it too quick.
135. Either a hummingbird or a rabbit may be ahead in a meadow.
136. Every really correct notion of a bad thing is charming.
137. Poems have mystery, languor, and point.
138. We all have in us the makings of ourselves.
139. If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.
140. It is also important to find out what we haven't been talking about.
An edition of Damned Welcome: Aesthetic Realism Maxims
(1972)
Damned Welcome: Aesthetic Realism maxims.
2d ed.
by Siegel, Eli
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Eli Siegel “can be hilariously funny, but he can also be uncannily profound.” — Kenneth Rexroth, New York Times Book Review
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Damned Welcome: Aesthetic Realism maxims.
1972, Definition Press
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Every page of this book is a discovery and these are the maxims on a single page. It is the page which contains one of the most famous of Eli Siegel's maxims: "If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake."
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