Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
LEONARD COHENLove is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
LEONARD COHENThere is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
LEONARD COHENYour faith was strong, but you needed proof.
LEONARD COHENBelieve nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
LEONARD COHENThe cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
LEONARD COHENDeprivation is the mother of poetry.
LEONARD COHENI’m planning a catastrophe.
LEONARD COHENI’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
LEONARD COHENYou go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
LEONARD COHENLove is the only engine of survival.
LEONARD COHENI told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
LEONARD COHENI bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
LEONARD COHENMy interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
LEONARD COHENWe’ve got to learn to love appearances.
LEONARD COHENPoetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
LEONARD COHENEuropean 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.
LEONARD COHEN