He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
LEONARD COHENDream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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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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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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There is a crack in everything.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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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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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
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Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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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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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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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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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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