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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,…
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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…
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Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other…
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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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Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks.
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The present order is the disorder of the future.
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People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they…
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I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.
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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…
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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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For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have…
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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…
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue…
— Teresa of Avila
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Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been…
— Bernard Baruch
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The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant…
— Joseph Addison
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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
— Josh Billings
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for…
— D. H. Lawrence
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I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
— Ambrose Bierce
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We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried…
— Thomas Jefferson
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