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 emp…

- David Ignatow

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

- David Ignatow

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…

- David Ignatow

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…

- David Ignatow

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

- David Ignatow

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…

- David Ignatow

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

- David Ignatow

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

- David Ignatow