Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
LEONARD COHENI will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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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 don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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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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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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