I ache in the places where I used to play.
LEONARD COHENCoroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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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 is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to 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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I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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