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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.

Leonard Cohen

I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
LEONARD COHEN

Lie Myself One Liner
I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
LEONARD COHEN

Feeling Myself Rain Skin Wait
The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
LEONARD COHEN

Art Sound
Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
LEONARD COHEN

Blessing Death Light Love Night
Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
LEONARD COHEN

Beautiful Creation Game Nature
Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
LEONARD COHEN

Care Grief Suffering
A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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Close Herself Power Wonder Young
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
LEONARD COHEN

Growth Heart Touch
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
LEONARD COHEN

Ignorance Myself Possible Reality
I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
LEONARD COHEN

Light Myself Truth
You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
LEONARD COHEN

Kiss Life Live Reality Yourself
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 COHEN

Love World Yourself
Love is the only engine of survival.
LEONARD COHEN

Love Survive
My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
LEONARD COHEN

Alone Laugh Man Myself Night Reputation
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
LEONARD COHEN

Evidence Life Poet Poetry
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
LEONARD COHEN

Death Sea

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