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I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.
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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Seriousness is the deepest pleasure we have.
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The art of longing's over, and it's never coming back.
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.
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I don't have any spiritual strategy.
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If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask. If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask. If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand. If you want a partner in life take my hand. I'm your man.
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It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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The obstacles are great and the suffering is great and people have got to make a living.
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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I think that really what our training, what our culture, our religious institutions, our educational and cultural institutions should be about is preparing the heart for that journey outside of the cage of the ribs.
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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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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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It's you my love, you who are the stranger.
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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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I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you was naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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It doesn't matter how anything happens.
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I'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I were one of those people who wrote songs quickly. But I'm not. So it takes me a great deal of time to find out what the song is.
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I think culture's always been violent, and it is something we find very entertaining. Not only does it reflect our social reality, but it also reflects our psychic reality.
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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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Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.
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