Then let’s be quiet together.
LEONARD COHENA young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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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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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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He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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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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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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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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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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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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