I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
LEONARD COHENDeprivation is the mother of poetry.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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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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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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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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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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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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