David Ignatow Quotes

If flowers want to grow right out of the concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down to smell them.

I like rust on a nail, fog on a mountain. Clouds hide stars, rooms have doors, eyes close, and the same words that began love end it with changed emphasis.

One can fall in love as often as a tree grows leaves. It is perfectly natural but not free of guilt and complications, unless one takes oneself to be a leaf.

The burden of living one’s own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share.

I should be content to look at a mountain for what it is and not as a comment on my life.

I wish I understood the beauty in leaves falling. To whom are we beautiful as we go?

Standing beside you, I took an oathto make your life simpler by complicating mineand what I always thought would happen did:I was lifted up in joy.

I should be contentto look at a mountainfor what it isand not as a comment on my life.