Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
LEONARD COHENBlessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
LEONARD COHENI don’t even hate books anymore.
LEONARD COHENAnd everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
LEONARD COHENThe cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
LEONARD COHENI bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
LEONARD COHENThe older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
LEONARD COHENI told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
LEONARD COHENPlease make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
LEONARD COHENRemember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
LEONARD COHENWe are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
LEONARD COHENI 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.
LEONARD COHENFriend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
LEONARD COHENI dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
LEONARD COHENI’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
LEONARD COHENFirst of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
LEONARD COHENPoetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
LEONARD COHEN