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Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time.
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
Film Actor
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Leonard Norman Cohen
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We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.
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What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.
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I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.
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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!!
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As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.
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You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.
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Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.
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The less I was of who I was, the better I felt.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.
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May everyone live, And may everyone die. Hello, my love, And my love, Goodbye.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts
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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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I've expressed my gratitude to my son many times. And his career is far from undistinguished, and it was a great privilege to have someone of this skill bringing this album to conclusion.
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We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.
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The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul.
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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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The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.
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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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There are no letters in the mailbox And there are no grapes upon the vine And there are no chocolates in your boxes anymore And there are no diamonds in the mine
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