Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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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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I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
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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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Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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