In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
LEONARD COHENI dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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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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Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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