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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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Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control, It begins with your family, and soon it comes round to your soul. Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned: When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned.
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[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated.
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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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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
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I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.
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I am not the one who loves - It's love that chooses me. When hatred with his package comes, you forbid delivery...
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In streams of light I clearly saw The dust you seldom see, Out of which the Nameless makes A Name for one like me... All busy in the sunlight The flecks did float and dance, And I was tumbled up with them In formless circumstance.
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It’s a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier for you and being the first one to exclaim how good the movie is. You depress people. We like apples too.
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Some people are graced with a flow some people are graced with something less than a flow. I'm one of those.
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I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.
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The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found.
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The Dream O I had such a wonderful dream, she said. I dreamed you made love to me. At last, he said to himself, the spirit has taken up some of the heavy work.
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The less I was of who I was, the better I felt.
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From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.
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And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.
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Get ready for the future: it is murder.
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To the men and women who own men and women those of us meant to be lovers we will not pardon you for wasting our bodies and time
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I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow.
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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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