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Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!
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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Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care
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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 always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.
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You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.
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Someone gave me wishes and I wished for an embrace.
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It's true that all the men you knew were dealers who said they were through with dealing Every time you gave them shelter. I know that kind of man It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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Your servant here, he has been told to say it clear, to say it cold: It's over, it ain't going any further And now the wheels of heaven stop you feel the devil's riding crop Get ready for the future: it is murder
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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 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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As soon as anybody does one of my songs, I rejoice. This particular case of all these great singers doing my work - the implications are very rich and the temptation to think of the outcome of these masses of the mainstream injecting my work into the marketplace, it's a very sweet speculation.
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The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.
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All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.
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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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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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One is distracted by this notion that there is such an thing as inspiration, that it comes fast and easy. And some people are graced by that style. I'm not. So I have to work as hard as any stiff to come up with my payload
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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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Just to get serious about this thing, you know. One has to be compassionate. It's true that people are up against things, economically and emotionally.
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[Prozac] didn't seem to have any effect whatsoever on my melancholy, my dark vision, and everything else that I'd taken it for.
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It's you my love, you who are the stranger.
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One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever.
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