Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
LEONARD COHENAvoid 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.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
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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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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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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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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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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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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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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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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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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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