Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
LEONARD COHENThen let’s be quiet together.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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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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Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
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It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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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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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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