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"My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public."
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"Gardening is not a rational act."
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"One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't."
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"Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot."
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"The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens."
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"That is, the only reason salvation is necessary is to get us back to the garden. The Pentateuch not only presents where we began but also why we are not there any more, and why and how we need to get back."
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"A good garden may have some weeds."
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"Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house."
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"Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors."
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"The devout have laid out gardens in the desert."
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"Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden."
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"I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions."
People
"For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not."
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"But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything."
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"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."
Poems
"People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is."
People
"No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural."
Work
"I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time."
Time
"Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it."
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"But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still."
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"I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera."
Life
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