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The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
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I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song 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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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love.
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But remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too And every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen
I have often prayed for you like this Let me have her
Leonard Cohen
To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.
Leonard Cohen
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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May everyone live, And may everyone die. Hello, my love, And my love, Goodbye.
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It doesn't matter how anything happens.
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I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.
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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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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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And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies.
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The obstacles are great and the suffering is great and people have got to make a living.
Leonard Cohen
When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.
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I don't have any spiritual strategy.
Leonard Cohen
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.
Leonard Cohen
[Prozac] didn't seem to have any effect whatsoever on my melancholy, my dark vision, and everything else that I'd taken it for.
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