Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
LEONARD COHENPoetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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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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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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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.
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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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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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