Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
LEONARD COHENIn our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
-
-
Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
LEONARD COHEN -
It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
LEONARD COHEN -
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
LEONARD COHEN -
And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
LEONARD COHEN -
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
LEONARD COHEN -
I ache in the places where I used to play.
LEONARD COHEN -
The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
LEONARD COHEN -
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
LEONARD COHEN -
We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
LEONARD COHEN -
I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
LEONARD COHEN -
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
LEONARD COHEN -
Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
LEONARD COHEN -
I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
LEONARD COHEN -
Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
LEONARD COHEN -
I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
LEONARD COHEN