We are ugly but we have the music.
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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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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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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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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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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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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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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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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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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