I ache in the places where I used to play.
LEONARD COHEN
Blessed 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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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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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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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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We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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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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