More from Leonard Cohen
European 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.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen 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 CohenLeonard Cohen Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I’m planning a catastrophe.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen 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.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I ache in the places where I used to play.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen
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Teresa PeresTeresa Peres But it was now time for her to go away-to find someone who could show her what happiness was.
Lang LeavLang Leav Just because you haven’t seen how wonderful, beautiful, and special she is, doesn’t mean no one else will.
Norah RoseNorah Rose A memory is a star or a stain.
Aneena BijuAneena Biju Love her, but don’t forget to leave her wild.
Little PaulsonLittle Paulson Do your own thing and live your way of happiness.
Emily BockEmily Bock I’ve experienced departure far too much to have the courage and call anyone my own.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi More often than I am not, all I need is the rise of my own lungs – I am already complete.
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