Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
LEONARD COHENGames are nature’s most beautiful creation.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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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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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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