Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
LEONARD COHENAfter a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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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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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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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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My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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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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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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