Then let’s be quiet together.
LEONARD COHENWhen passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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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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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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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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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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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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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 bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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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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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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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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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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