Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
LEONARD COHENRemember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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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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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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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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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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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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I’m planning a catastrophe.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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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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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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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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