I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
LEONARD COHENI’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
LEONARD COHENI found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
LEONARD COHENI will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
LEONARD COHENThere is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
LEONARD COHENI’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
LEONARD COHENRemember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
LEONARD COHENThen let’s be quiet together.
LEONARD COHENFirst of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
LEONARD COHENEverything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHENDon’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
LEONARD COHENA young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
LEONARD COHENThe older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
LEONARD COHENAfter a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
LEONARD COHENOrdinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
LEONARD COHENPoetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
LEONARD COHENCoroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
LEONARD COHEN