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David Ignatow (February 7, 1914 – November 17, 1997) was an American poet.

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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.

Clouds, Eye, Love, Mountain, Stars

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.

Air, Death, Loneliness, Sadness, Winter

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

Burden, Experiencing, Life Is, Living, Share

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

Comment, Life, Look, Looks, Mountain, Should

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.

Book, House, Living, Loneliness, Moving, Sensations

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.

Falling In Love, Guilt, Oneself, Perfectly, Tree, Unless

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

Beautiful, Beauty, Fall, Understood, Wish

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

Bend, Concrete, Cracks, Flower, Smell

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