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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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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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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It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender
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And here you are hurried, And here you are gone And here is the love, That it's all built upon.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else. Then let's be quiet together.
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Why don't you try to do without him, why don't you try to live alone? Do you really need his hands for your passion? Do you really need his heart for your throne? Do you need his labor for your baby? Do you need his beast for the bone? Do you need to hold a leash to be a lady? I know that you can make it, you can make it on your own.
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Maybe we, the cultural workers , could apply ourselves. We're not going to resolve it in this moment or even in this generation, but perhaps as some kind of agenda we could invite our writers and cultural workers to address the problem a little more responsibly, because people are suffering tremendously from a want of data.
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It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get up each morning is to make a kind of peace.
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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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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.
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I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.
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There are a few things that deal with passion. There's Prozac.
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You should go from place to place recovering the poems that have been written for you to which you can affix your signature. Don't discuss these matters with anyone. Retrieve. Retrieve. When the basket is full someone will appear to whom you can present it.
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To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.
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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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It's inappropriate for an elderly chap to register, you know, authentically, his feelings, you know, because they really can be interpreted. So you have to get quite covert as you get older. Or you have to find some avuncular way, you know, of responding.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before us, I know we are not new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but now it's come to distances and both of us must try, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.
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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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May everyone live, And may everyone die. Hello, my love, And my love, Goodbye.
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Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth One more thin gypsy thief... Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes I thought it was there for good so I never tried... And Jane came by with a lock of your hair She said that you gave it to her That night that you planned to go clear.
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