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 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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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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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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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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