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Leonard Cohen

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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Evidence Life Poet Poetry
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Philosophy World
Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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Blessing Desire Heaven Nature Word
He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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Feeling Hairs Himself
A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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Close Herself Power Wonder Young
Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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Beautiful Creation Game Nature
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Myself Tree Understand
You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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Kiss Life Live Reality Yourself
I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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Deep End Myself
Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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Decision Funny
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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Children Love Reveal Scars Secret Word
I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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Light Myself Truth
Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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Love Ugly World
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.
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Children Death Growth Leadership Parents War
It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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Philosophy Result

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