After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
LEONARD COHENPoetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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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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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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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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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
LEONARD COHEN