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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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It's you my love, you who are the stranger.
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My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico Garcia Lorca.
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I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.
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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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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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It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was but one mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed and changed into itself over and over.
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I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because we're always all over the place. A good song, a good lyric is a movie: it will just focus and calm and confer significance on this completely bewildering reality that all of us live in.
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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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You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.
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Everybody knows that the boat is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied. Everybody got this broken feeling, like their father or their dog just died. Everybody talking to their pockets. Everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long-stem rose. Everybody knows.
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I have often prayed for you like this Let me have her
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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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I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows
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I'm planning a catastrophe.
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No one's ever done one of my songs badly. People say to me, God, so-and-so wrecked that song. Well, I'm unaware of it. Anybody doing one of my tunes has earned my gratitude, and I don't get that many covers where I have the luxury to choose.
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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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I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
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The less I was of who I was, the better I felt.
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He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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