Quote

The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found.

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
Moon
Candle
Uncovering
Went
Burned
Milky
Half
Hills
Unleashed
Perfect
Town
Candles
Found
Fundamental
Luminous
Two
Fundamentals
Polished
Love
Towns
Transparent
Weightless
World
Ground
Hill
Unbound

More quotes by Leonard Cohen

Image
Music is the emotional life of the most people.
Leonard Cohen
Image
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
Leonard Cohen
Image
Get ready for the future: it is murder.
Leonard Cohen
Image
You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.
Leonard Cohen
Image
I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.
Leonard Cohen
Image
It's you my love, you who are the stranger.
Leonard Cohen
Image
Ah, grief makes us precise!
Leonard Cohen
Image
Do not be a magician - be magic!
Leonard Cohen
Image
Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control, It begins with your family, and soon it comes round to your soul. Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned: When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned.
Leonard Cohen
Image
Dream after dream we all lie in each other's arms
Leonard Cohen
Image
It doesn't matter how anything happens.
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
Well I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
Leonard Cohen
Image
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else. Then let's be quiet together.
Leonard Cohen
Image
My son and my daughter have both been an incredibly sustaining force, especially through this recent bad patch [of health]. So, I've been blessed and grateful for their company and for their assistance.
Leonard Cohen
Image
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.
Leonard Cohen
Image
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.
Leonard Cohen
Image
Everybody knows the dice are loaded.
Leonard Cohen
Image
Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
Leonard Cohen
Image
A sip of wine, a cigarette, And then it’s time to go. I tidied up the kitchenette I tuned the old banjo. I’m wanted at the traffic-jam. They’re saving me a seat.
Leonard Cohen