It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
LEONARD COHENMy 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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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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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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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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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’m planning a catastrophe.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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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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A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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