Leonard Cohen on forever
Leonard Cohen98 quotes“Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.”
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Someone rejected you does not mean you are not worthy. Maybe they can’t afford to be with you.
Jacklyn TysonJacklyn Tyson I will love you from afar it’s better this way because close up it hurts too much.
Melissa AndersonMelissa Anderson Maybe if you hold me tight, our love won’t be as shallow.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi Sometimes a person is in peace & in the piece at the same time.
Jessica CollinsJessica Collins Between day and night there was a moment of silence.
Frode GaslandFrode Gasland But doesn’t it hurt to feel so much and pretend not to?
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Admire your sweet way of glowing; your passionate way of flowing.
Ana SoulfulAna Soulful Darling, you are a warrior, for even though each day feels like a battle, you keep fighting and live on.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
John KeatsJohn Keats I will clamber through the clouds and exist.
John KeatsJohn Keats As the Swiss inscription says: “Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;” or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
John KeatsJohn Keats Today is unique! It has never occurred and it will never be repeated. At midnight it will end, quietly, suddenly, totally. Forever. But the hours between now and then are opportunities with eternal possibilities.
Charles R. SwindollCharles R. Swindoll I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.
John KeatsJohn Keats We Are Bulletproof: The Eternal’ demonstrates that we will keep going despite the difficulties. It reveals our ego.
J-HopeJ-Hope