I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
LEONARD COHENThe older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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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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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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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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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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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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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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