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.
LEONARD COHENPoetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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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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Your body will never be familiar.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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There is a crack in everything.
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