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 COHENBlessed 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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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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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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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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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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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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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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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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