Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
LEONARD COHENMy interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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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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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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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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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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Going 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.
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There is a crack in everything.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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Avoid 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.
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