Leonard Cohen on light
Leonard Cohen98 quotes“Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.”
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Never make a decision when you need to pee.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I have tried in my way to be free.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Your body will never be familiar.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.
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Malcolm XMalcolm X Your kisses lift me higher like the sweet song of a choir. You light my morning sky, with burning love.
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