Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
LEONARD COHENGoing 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.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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I’m planning a catastrophe.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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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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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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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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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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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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I have tried in my way to be free.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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