Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
LEONARD COHENShe was made of flesh and eyelashes.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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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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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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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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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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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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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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I’m planning a catastrophe.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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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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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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