David Ignatow Quotes

Forever is comprised of nows.

- Emily Dickinson

Poet

· USA

Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul.

- Robert Frost

Poet

· USA

• Courage
• Heart
• Soul

Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.

- Edmund Spenser

Poet

· England

• Consequence
• Repentance
• Wrath

Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.

- James Russell Lowell

Poet

· USA

• Friendship

I don’t have a cell phone (though for years I’ve kept saying, “soon”).

- Jane Hirshfield

Poet

· USA

• Cells
• Phones

There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand.

- Charles Peguy

Poet

· France

• Left

I learn to pity woes so like my own.

- John Dryden

Poet

· England

• Pity
• Woe

O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.

- James Russell Lowell

Poet

· USA

• Change
• Visionaries

Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs.

- Aulus Persius Flaccus

Poet

· Italy

• Affair
• Folly
• Quantum

Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.

- Boris Pasternak

Poet

· Russia

• Art
• Moments