I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
LEONARD COHENBelieve nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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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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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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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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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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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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Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
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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’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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