A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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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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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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There is a crack in everything.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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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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Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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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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