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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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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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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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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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It doesn't matter how anything happens.
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I heard of a man who says words so beautifully that if he only speaks their name women give themselves to him. If I am dumb beside your body while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips it is because I hear a man climb stairs and clear his throat outside our door.
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You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other's arms
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You can do anything you want to [ in ashram] if you can find the time. It's a very rigorous day. It starts at 2:30 in the morning and often doesn't end until midnight, so if you can actually find a moment to have a drink or a smoke, you're quite welcome to, as long as it doesn't interfere with your capacity to follow the schedule.
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English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill.
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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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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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My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in.
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
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It's you my love, you who are the stranger.
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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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But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
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I'm planning a catastrophe.
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I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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