I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
LEONARD COHENHow can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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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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Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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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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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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There is a crack in everything.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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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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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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