The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
LEONARD COHENThen let’s be quiet together.
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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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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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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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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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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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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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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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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