Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
LEONARD COHENDon’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
LEONARD COHENI will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
LEONARD COHENFirst of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
LEONARD COHENAfter a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
LEONARD COHENAnd everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
LEONARD COHENThe cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
LEONARD COHENBelieve nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
LEONARD COHENShe was made of flesh and eyelashes.
LEONARD COHENTo kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
LEONARD COHENOnly one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
LEONARD COHENYou live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
LEONARD COHENI bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
LEONARD COHENHow bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
LEONARD COHENThe older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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 COHENHe knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
LEONARD COHEN