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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.

Leonard Cohen

Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Beautiful Believe Expectation Feeling Love Myself
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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Easy Expectation Myself Reality
We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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Disappear Light Love Philosophy
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Control Love Myself
Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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Breathe Myself Remember Yourself
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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Dream Light Myself Naked Night Yourself
After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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Reading Yourself
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
Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Myself
Love is the only engine of survival.
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Love Survive
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Ignorance Myself Possible Reality
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Fantasy Yourself
Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
LEONARD COHEN

Loss Mom Poetry
Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
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Alone Empty Hard Time Lonely Myself Philosophy
You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
LEONARD COHEN

Kiss Life Live Reality Yourself

Deprivation is the mother of poetry.

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