A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
LEONARD COHENYour faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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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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We are ugly but we have the music.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
LEONARD COHEN






