If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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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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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A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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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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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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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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