Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
LEONARD COHENDon’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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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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