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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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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I couldn't feel so I learned to touch.
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I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others it's for others to use.
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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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When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss. And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty, my cheap violin and my cross.
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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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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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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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I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.
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Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.
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Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.
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Someone gave me wishes and I wished for an embrace.
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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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May everyone live, And may everyone die. Hello, my love, And my love, Goodbye.
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Get ready for the future: it is murder.
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It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops.
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