Ian Hamilton Finlay
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Ian Hamilton Finlay, CBEwas a Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth28 October 1925
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Yes, I think we have created a culture in which there is a complete absence of piety of any kind. And piety was always an ingredient of culture.
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I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.
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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.