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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.

Leonard Cohen

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.
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Goodness Heart Himself Love Man
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Fantasy Yourself
Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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Deep Mystery Secret Yourself
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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Evidence Life Poet Poetry
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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Forgiveness Happiness I Miss You Myself
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Death Sea
When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Death Friendship Ourselves Passion
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Philosophy World
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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Care Forgiveness
I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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Light Myself Truth
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Forever Stars
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Philosophy
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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Blessing Desire Heaven Nature Word
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Beginning Deep Myself Past

A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.

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