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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Leonard Cohen

Love is the only engine of survival.
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Love Survive
Then let’s be quiet together.
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Love Quiet Togetherness
I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Himself Love Myself Sex
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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Forgiveness Happiness I Miss You Myself
Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN

Light Philosophy
And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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Myself Relationship Sex Yourself
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
LEONARD COHEN

Death Sea
European 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 COHEN

Children Death Growth Leadership Parents War
I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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Forget Important Myself Reading World
We are ugly but we have the music.
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Music Ugly
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
LEONARD COHEN

Advice Patience Philosophy
Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
LEONARD COHEN

Forever Stars
How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
LEONARD COHEN

Morning Taste
A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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Close Herself Power Wonder Young
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
LEONARD COHEN

Evidence Life Poet Poetry
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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Care Grief Suffering

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