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Then let’s be quiet together.

Leonard Cohen

Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Death Sea
I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
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Feeling Myself Rain Skin Wait
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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Love Ugly World
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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Children Death Growth Leadership Parents War
Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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Loss Mom Poetry
There is a crack in everything.
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One Liner
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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Dream Light Myself Naked Night Yourself
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Beginning Deep Myself Past
Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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Break Up Deep Love Victory
It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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Hands Hard Sky
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Advice Patience Philosophy
Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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Beautiful Creation Game Nature
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry
We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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Appearance Learning Love

Then let’s be quiet together.

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