You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
LEONARD COHENBelieve nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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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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To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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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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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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