To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
LEONARD COHENPoetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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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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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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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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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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