My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
LEONARD COHENEuropean 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.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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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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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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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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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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Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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