Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
LEONARD COHENAnd everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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I’m planning a catastrophe.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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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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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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