Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
LEONARD COHENWe 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.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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There is a crack in everything.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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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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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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I’m planning a catastrophe.
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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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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Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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