Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
LEONARD COHENWe are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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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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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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