Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
LEONARD COHENBlessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
LEONARD COHENWho could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
LEONARD COHENBelieve nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
LEONARD COHENThen let’s be quiet together.
LEONARD COHENThere is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHENDream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
LEONARD COHENThe cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
LEONARD COHENYou live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
LEONARD COHENNever make a decision when you need to pee.
LEONARD COHENHe knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
LEONARD COHENI’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
LEONARD COHENBlessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
LEONARD COHENIt is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
LEONARD COHENMy interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
LEONARD COHENIt is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
LEONARD COHENMy reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
LEONARD COHEN