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Ian Hamilton Finlay

"I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera."

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"I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera."

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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."
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"Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different."
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"The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture."
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"I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera."
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Ian Hamilton Finlay
"I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one."
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"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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"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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"What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever."
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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."
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