Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
LEONARD COHENLove is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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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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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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There is a crack in everything.
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I’m planning a catastrophe.
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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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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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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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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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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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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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