Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
LEONARD COHENI’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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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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He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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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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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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