She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
LEONARD COHENIt’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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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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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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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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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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