Quote

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love

Leonard Cohen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
Film Actor
Lyricist
Musician
Novelist
Pianist
Poet
Record Producer
Screenwriter
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Street Artist
Writer
Leonard Norman Cohen
Jikan
Love
Panic
Olive
Like
Lifts
Olives
Branches
Gathered
Burning
Dove
Dance
Safely
Poetry
Violin
Beauty
Branch
Ends
Lift
Homeward

More quotes by Leonard Cohen

Image
I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
Leonard Cohen
Image
Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time.
Leonard Cohen
Image
Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.
Leonard Cohen
Image
We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.
Leonard Cohen
Image
You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure. The rich have get their channels in the bedrooms of the poor. And there's a mighty Judgement coming but I may be wrong.
Leonard Cohen
Image
Some people are graced with a flow some people are graced with something less than a flow. I'm one of those.
Leonard Cohen
Image
No one masters the heart.
Leonard Cohen
Image
Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.
Leonard Cohen
Image
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.
Leonard Cohen
Image
..you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent
Leonard Cohen
Image
Take one step to the side and it's all absurd.
Leonard Cohen
Image
Here is your cross, Your nails and your hill And here is your love, That lists where it will
Leonard Cohen
Image
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.
Leonard Cohen
Image
Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older.
Leonard Cohen
Image
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.
Leonard Cohen
Image
It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender
Leonard Cohen
Image
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else. Then let's be quiet together.
Leonard Cohen
Image
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
Leonard Cohen
Image
Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President's Elegy Or A Nude Hunchback Acquiring A Tan On The Crowded Oily Beach.
Leonard Cohen
Image
a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.
Leonard Cohen