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 COHENDeprivation is the mother of poetry.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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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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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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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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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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