First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
LEONARD COHENPlease 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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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
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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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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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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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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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There is a crack in everything.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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