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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

Leonard Cohen

Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
LEONARD COHEN

Deep Mystery Secret Yourself
I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
LEONARD COHEN

Forget Important Myself Reading World
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
LEONARD COHEN

Philosophy
Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
LEONARD COHEN

Breathe Myself Remember Yourself
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
LEONARD COHEN

Fantasy Yourself
Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
LEONARD COHEN

Blessing Desire Heaven Nature Word
When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
LEONARD COHEN

Death Friendship Ourselves Passion
I don’t even hate books anymore.
LEONARD COHEN

Book Hate Library Myself
It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
LEONARD COHEN

Dissappear Love Philosophy
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
LEONARD COHEN

Death Sea
Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
LEONARD COHEN

Care Character Friendship
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
LEONARD COHEN

Children Love Reveal Scars Secret Word
Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
LEONARD COHEN

Forever Stars
I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
LEONARD COHEN

Easy Expectation Myself Reality
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN

Light Philosophy
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
LEONARD COHEN

Eyes Ourselves Wonderful

I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

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