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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.

Leonard Cohen

I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
LEONARD COHEN

Magic Myself Wait
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.
LEONARD COHEN

Feeling Myself Rain Skin Wait
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
LEONARD COHEN

Evidence Life Poet Poetry
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
LEONARD COHEN

Philosophy World
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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Reading Yourself
Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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Care Grief Suffering
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
LEONARD COHEN

Business Poetry
We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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Disappear Light Love Philosophy
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
LEONARD COHEN

Death Sea
It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
LEONARD COHEN

Beginning Laugh Time
I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
LEONARD COHEN

Forget Important Myself Reading World
Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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Break Up Deep Love Victory
It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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Hands Hard Sky
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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Blessing Desire Heaven Nature Word
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
LEONARD COHEN

Fantasy Yourself
The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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Art Sound
We are ugly but we have the music.
LEONARD COHEN

Music Ugly
I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
LEONARD COHEN

Lie Myself One Liner
European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
LEONARD COHEN

Children Death Growth Leadership Parents War
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
LEONARD COHEN

Myself Yourself
You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
LEONARD COHEN

Kiss Life Live Reality Yourself
Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
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Afraid Avoid Beautiful Forever Goodness Myself Shame Weakness Yourself
To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
LEONARD COHEN

Discover Philosophy Truth Vision
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
LEONARD COHEN

Lonely Sin Yourself
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Character Failure Myself
Your body will never be familiar.
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Body One Liner Yourself

The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.

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