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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,…
• My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the…
• Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other…
• I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
• Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks.
• The present order is the disorder of the future.
• People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they…
• I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.
• But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all…
• As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
• For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have…
• 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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