Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
LEONARD COHENI ache in the places where I used to play.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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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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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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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 cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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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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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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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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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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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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