Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
LEONARD COHENHe knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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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 don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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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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Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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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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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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