Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
LEONARD COHENMy abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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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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Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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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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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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There is a crack in everything.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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