As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
LEONARD COHENThen let’s be quiet together.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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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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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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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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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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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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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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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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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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I’m planning a catastrophe.
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