Leonard Cohen on easy
Leonard Cohen98 quotes“It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.”
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Never make a decision when you need to pee.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I have tried in my way to be free.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Your body will never be familiar.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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