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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.

Leonard Cohen

To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Herself Kiss
My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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Alone Laugh Man Myself Night Reputation
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.
LEONARD COHEN

Love World Yourself
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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Evidence Life Poet Poetry
Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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Change Myself Oneself
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Character Failure Myself
Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
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Afraid Avoid Beautiful Forever Goodness Myself Shame Weakness Yourself
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry
How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Morning Taste
I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Magic Myself Wait
And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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Myself Relationship Sex Yourself
Your body will never be familiar.
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Body One Liner Yourself
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Lonely Sin Yourself
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
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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Children Love Reveal Scars Secret Word
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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Feeling Myself Rain Skin Wait

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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