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I think that really what our training, what our culture, our religious institutions, our educational and cultural institutions should be about is preparing the heart for that journey outside of the cage of the ribs.
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
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My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room. This system has just worked for me, even though I've had to sweat over every word. It's just my style.
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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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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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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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The psychologists are valiantly trying to provide us with answers, the religious people are trying to provide us with answers. I think it properly falls on the cultural workers to investigate this predicament with a little less concern for the marketplace and a little more concern for their higher calling.
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Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.
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Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!
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I guess you go for nothing, if you really want to go that far.
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English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill.
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I don't have any spiritual strategy.
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You have money, fame, youth, beauty, talent. That's a good start... for feeling good.
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I hope we [with Patrick Leonard] can come up with something orchestral with some spoken material. And I also, God willing, hope that perhaps another record of songs also might emerge, but one never knows.
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The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.
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Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.
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I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.
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My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico Garcia Lorca.
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It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.
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I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.
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