I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
LEONARD COHENI will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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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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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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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 found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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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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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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There is a crack in everything.
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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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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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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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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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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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