I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
LEONARD COHENPoetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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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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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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