First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
LEONARD COHENFirst of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
LEONARD COHENThe maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
LEONARD COHENTo discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
LEONARD COHENOnly one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
LEONARD COHENEven damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
LEONARD COHENPoetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
LEONARD COHENPoetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
LEONARD COHENI guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
LEONARD COHENI ache in the places where I used to play.
LEONARD COHENI will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
LEONARD COHENAvoid 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.
LEONARD COHENYou go your way I’ll go your way too.
LEONARD COHENI 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.
LEONARD COHENWe are ugly but we have the music.
LEONARD COHENEuropean children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
LEONARD COHENIf you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
LEONARD COHEN