Ian Hamilton Finlay Quotes

Ian Hamilton Finlay
Scottish Poet
Born: Oct 28, 1925
Died: Mar 27, 2006
Am Concrete Me People Think You
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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 find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is. Ian Hamilton Finlay
Myself Me People Being Myself Find Only Know Annoying Understand Always How Am Being Pity Found Why Challenging
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. Ian Hamilton Finlay
Me Pleased Given Only Poetry Write Feel Am Concrete Still Close Cannot Choose Muse
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. Ian Hamilton Finlay
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However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really. Ian Hamilton Finlay
Work World Pure Looking Think About Never Feel Over Make Accessible Am However Trying Quite Straight Then Really Working Shoulder Forward
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. Ian Hamilton Finlay
Me Beginning Settings Suited Poetry Never Clear Idea Course Got Concrete Public Much Really Using Chance
No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural. Ian Hamilton Finlay
Work Natural People Challenge Confuse Other Find Only Make Expectations Order
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. Ian Hamilton Finlay
Garden People Made Own Mediums Collaboration Having Through Never Course Always Came Worked Who Gardens Designed
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. Ian Hamilton Finlay
You Trust Book Architecture National Guide Pleasure Mad Laughing Follies Architect Folly Only Implied Calling Sort Get Same Happened Which Dispute Thing
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. Ian Hamilton Finlay
Garden Sense Think Difficulty Other Would Had Like Perhaps Traditional Traditional Sense Times Modern Little Gardens
I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera. Ian Hamilton Finlay
Life Try Only Parts Always Am Tragic Beginner Different Different Parts Include
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. Ian Hamilton Finlay
Work Me You People Pure Think Pleased Worry Would Would-Be Could Liked Course Accessible Understood Mean Then Your
But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything. Ian Hamilton Finlay
Myself Me You Poet Whatever Consider Everything Embarrassing About Only Wee Outside Importance Opinion Understand Am Very Scottish Artist Quite Modest Asked Really Things

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