Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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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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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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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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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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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 don’t even hate books anymore.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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