I suppose also I came to classicism through reading philosophy, but I suppose the interest was already in me or I wouldn't have read philosophy.
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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
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.
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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 - 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.
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