We are ugly but we have the music.
LEONARD COHENBlessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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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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It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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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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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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Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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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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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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