Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
LEONARD COHENWho could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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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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It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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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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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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