Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
LEONARD COHENRemember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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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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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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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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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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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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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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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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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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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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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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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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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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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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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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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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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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Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
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