"As a friendly one. I would still like……" — Ian Hamilton Finlay
"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."
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Ian Hamilton Finlay
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21 Quotes by Ian Hamilton Finlay
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I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked…
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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…
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Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think…
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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…
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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…
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For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I…
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But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what…
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But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings.…
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More Concrete Quotes
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one of 522 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
— Hannah Arendt
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.
— Jeff Bingaman
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some…
— Vanna Bonta
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Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building…
— Sherrod Brown
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A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step…
— Herb Caen
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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant…
— Dale Carnegie
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I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
— Paul Cezanne
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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or…
— Tadao Ando
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