"What you compose with is neither here nor……" — Ian Hamilton Finlay
"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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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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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…
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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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I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.
— Venerable Bede
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame…
— George Berkeley
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It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
— Johannes Brahms
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We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in…
— John le Carre
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to…
— Sam Abell
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I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance,…
— Tori Amos
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Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without…
— June Jordan
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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the…
— Edward Abbey
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The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must…
— Louis Pasteur
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I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire…
— Martin Seligman
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Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals…
— Charles Lyell
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