It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
LEONARD COHENThere is a crack in everything.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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I’m planning a catastrophe.
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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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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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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