I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
LEONARD COHENIt is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I’m planning a catastrophe.
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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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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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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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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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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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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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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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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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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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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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