Top 9 David Ignatow Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf left all by itself in the air and it does not speak of loneliness or death. One leaf and it spends itself in swaying mildly in the breeze.
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#3. 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.
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#4. I wish I understood the beauty
in leaves falling. To whom
are we beautiful
as we go?
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#5. I should be content
to look at a mountain
for what it is
and not as a comment on my life.
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#6. The burden of living one's own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share.
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#7. The fear of being vulnerable prompts me into bringing myself forward.
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#8. Standing beside you,
I took an oath
to make your life simpler
by complicating mine
and what I always thought
would happen did:
I was lifted up in joy.
David Ignatow
#9. If flowers want to grow right out of concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down and smell them.
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