I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
LEONARD COHENI’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
LEONARD COHENFriend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
LEONARD COHENBlessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
LEONARD COHENNever make a decision when you need to pee.
LEONARD COHENCoroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
LEONARD COHENI will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
LEONARD COHENPoetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
LEONARD COHENLove is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
LEONARD COHENI don’t even hate books anymore.
LEONARD COHENThere is a crack in everything.
LEONARD COHENYou go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
LEONARD COHENYour body will never be familiar.
LEONARD COHENOrdinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
LEONARD COHENYou go your way I’ll go your way too.
LEONARD COHENAh, grief makes us precise!
LEONARD COHENHow bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
LEONARD COHEN