Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
LEONARD COHENOrdinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
LEONARD COHENI bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
LEONARD COHENOnly one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
LEONARD COHENIt’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
LEONARD COHENWho could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
LEONARD COHENThere is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHENI 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 COHENA kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
LEONARD COHENAnything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
LEONARD COHENEven damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
LEONARD COHENA young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
LEONARD COHENWe are ugly but we have the music.
LEONARD COHENI don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
LEONARD COHENI have tried in my way to be free.
LEONARD COHENYou go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
LEONARD COHENPoetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
LEONARD COHEN