She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
LEONARD COHENI ache in the places where I used to play.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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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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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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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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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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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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Your body will never be familiar.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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