Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
LEONARD COHENLove is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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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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European 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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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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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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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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