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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.

Leonard Cohen

It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
LEONARD COHEN

Hands Hard Sky
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
LEONARD COHEN

Lonely Sin Yourself
Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
LEONARD COHEN

One Liner Poison
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
LEONARD COHEN

Children Love Reveal Scars Secret Word
And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
LEONARD COHEN

Myself Relationship Sex Yourself
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
LEONARD COHEN

Evidence Life Poet Poetry
I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
LEONARD COHEN

Forget Important Myself Reading World
Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
LEONARD COHEN

Attachment Old Philosophy
A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
LEONARD COHEN

Love Victim Yourself
I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
LEONARD COHEN

Light Myself Truth
I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
LEONARD COHEN

Choice Deep Love Myself
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
LEONARD COHEN

Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
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.
LEONARD COHEN

Children Death Growth Leadership Parents War
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
LEONARD COHEN

Beginning Deep Myself Past
You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
LEONARD COHEN

Heaven Hell Yourself
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
LEONARD COHEN

Herself Kiss

I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.

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