The present order is the disorder of the future.

Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks.

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.

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.

I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

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.

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.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

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.

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.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes

I think people believe what they want to believe.

Increasingly we confused the pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of pleasure.

I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.

You can't sing with a closed heart. You just can't do it. And if you try, as soon as you start singing, your heart just naturally opens more and more.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.

There's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.

This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.

If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.