I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
LEONARD COHENPoetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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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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Then let’s be quiet together.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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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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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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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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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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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.
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Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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