It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
LEONARD COHENBlessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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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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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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