Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
LEONARD COHENI will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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I’m planning a catastrophe.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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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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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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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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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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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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