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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
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Leonard Norman Cohen
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Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!
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Now, I don't want to give you the impression that I'm a great musicologist, but I'm a lot better than what I was described as for a long, long time you know, people said I only knew three chords when I knew five.
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I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.
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Please 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.
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It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway.
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I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before us, I know we are not new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but now it's come to distances and both of us must try, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.
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Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.
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I don't have any spiritual strategy.
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Every heart to Love will come, but like a refugee
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Take one step to the side and it's all absurd.
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I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows
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Well I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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I don't know which side is anybody on any more. I don't really care. There is a moment when we have to transcend the side we're on and understand that we are creatures of a higher order.
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At the very center of our culture is a crucified man, a tortured man hanging on a cross of wood. You have an image of violence at the very center of our spiritual investigation.
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I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
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And here you are hurried, And here you are gone And here is the love, That it's all built upon.
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My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in.
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Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.
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To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.
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