Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
LEONARD COHENI’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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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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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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