Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
LEONARD COHENHe knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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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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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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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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