The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
LEONARD COHENAh, grief makes us precise!
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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I’m planning a catastrophe.
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It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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