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Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
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a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Everybody knows that you've been faithful, give or take a night or two.
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From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.
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I don't remember lighting this cigarette and I don't remember if I'm here alone or waiting for someone.
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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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You have money, fame, youth, beauty, talent. That's a good start... for feeling good.
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Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique.
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A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love.
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When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.
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No one masters the heart.
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All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else. Then let's be quiet together.
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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.
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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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