David Ignatow quotes
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“If flowers want to grow right out of concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down and smell them.”
-- David IgnatowSource : "Poems, 1934-1969".
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“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.”
-- David IgnatowSource : David Ignatow (2011). “Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994”, p.124, Wesleyan University Press
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“There are times when I can find myself in a book, too, for two or three hours. But afterward I have such an urge to go out and reach for other people. Very often they're not around. There's also a metaphysical loneliness. We all feel it. The burden of living one's own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share. You take a step in a house, you start moving around the house, no one else moves with you. You're walking by yourself.”
-- David IgnatowSource : David Ignatow, Ralph J. Mills (1980). “Open between us”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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“I should be content to look at a mountain for what it is and not as a comment on my life.”
-- David IgnatowSource : David Ignatow (2011). “Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994”, p.45, Wesleyan University Press
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“The burden of living one’s own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share.”
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“I wish I understood the beauty in leaves falling. To whom are we beautiful as we go?”
-- David IgnatowSource : David Ignatow (2011). “Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994”, p.72, Wesleyan University Press
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“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.”
-- David IgnatowSource : David Ignatow (2011). “Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994”, p.57, Wesleyan University Press
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“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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“The burden of living one’s own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share.”
-- David IgnatowSource : David Ignatow, Ralph J. Mills (1980). “Open between us”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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“There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.”
Source : Adah Isaacs Menken (1868). “Infelicia [poems].”, p.72
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“If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.”
Source : Alan Bennett (2010). “The Complete Talking Heads”, p.56, Macmillan
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“I'm not scared at all... Of the cracks in the crystal ball.”
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“As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market.”
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