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- Feeling
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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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.
- Expectations
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Different Parts
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work.
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- Nov 07, 2020