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Leonard Cohen

It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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Hands Hard Sky
If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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Deep Ocean Yourself
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Evidence Faith Need Strong Yourself
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry
Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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Love Ugly World
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Myself Yourself
I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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Dream Light Myself Naked Night Yourself
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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Darkness Forgiveness Human Journey Love Mad Ourselves Path
I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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Forget Important Myself Reading World
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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Care Grief Suffering
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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Easy Scars Wound
In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Kill Light Ourselves
Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
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Alone Empty Hard Time Lonely Myself Philosophy
Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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One Liner Poison
Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Beautiful Believe Expectation Feeling Love Myself

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