Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
LEONARD COHENBlessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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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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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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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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I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
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