If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
LEONARD COHENIf you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
LEONARD COHENA heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
LEONARD COHENPoetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
LEONARD COHENCoroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
LEONARD COHENMy abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
LEONARD COHENI dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
LEONARD COHENTo kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
LEONARD COHENGoing nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
LEONARD COHENThere is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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 COHENI am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
LEONARD COHENI guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
LEONARD COHENYou wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
LEONARD COHENI’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
LEONARD COHENDeprivation is the mother of poetry.
LEONARD COHENLove is the only engine of survival.
LEONARD COHEN