Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
LEONARD COHENEuropean children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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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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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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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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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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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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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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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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