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Leonard Cohen
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Leonard Cohen
Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care
Leonard Cohen
Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
Leonard Cohen
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Leonard Cohen
If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often. It's much like the life of a Catholic nun. You're married to a mystery."
Leonard Cohen
I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.
Leonard Cohen
Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything, That's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen
There is no comfort in the coven of the witch. Some very clever Doctor went and sterilized the bitch.
Leonard Cohen
I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
Leonard Cohen
Everybody knows that you've been faithful, give or take a night or two.
Leonard Cohen
And you want to travel with her And you want to travel blind And you know that you can trust her For she's touched your perfect body with her mind.
Leonard Cohen
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love
Leonard Cohen
Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld, so I can sigh eternally. Leonard Cohen
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom, For trying to change the system from within
Leonard Cohen
You were Marlon Brando, I was Steve McQueen, you were K.Y. Jelly, I was Vaseline.
Leonard Cohen
Oh like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free.
Leonard Cohen
History is a needle for putting men asleep, anointed with the poison of all they want to keep
Leonard Cohen
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin, dance me through the panic til I'm gathered safely within. Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove, dance me to the end of love
Leonard Cohen
The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief.
Leonard Cohen
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
Leonard Cohen
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape
Leonard Cohen
I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen
Leonard Cohen
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world
Leonard Cohen
No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed.
Leonard Cohen
Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation chosen to be a nation-none of these lands is yours, all of you are thieves of holiness, all of you at war with Mercy
Leonard Cohen
Don't dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be. - Leonard Cohen
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Leonard Cohen
I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.
Leonard Cohen
I guess you go for nothing, if you really want to go that far. - Leonard Cohen
We've been alone too long, let's be alone together
Leonard Cohen
This mental space is occupied and everything is mine.
Leonard Cohen
Give me crack and anal sex, take the only tree that's left and stuff it up the hole in your culture. - Leonard Cohen, The Future
Leonard Cohen
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.
Leonard Cohen
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