Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
LEONARD COHENA kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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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.
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I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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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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It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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