As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
LEONARD COHENStunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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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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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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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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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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