Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I've never thought of myself as a religious person.
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I think culture's always been violent, and it is something we find very entertaining. Not only does it reflect our social reality, but it also reflects our psychic reality.
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You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.
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[Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don't think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could translate one of my tunes into that really beautiful chamber music.
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Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone.
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We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.
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Take one step to the side and it's all absurd.
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Although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warmed.
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Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth One more thin gypsy thief... Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes I thought it was there for good so I never tried... And Jane came by with a lock of your hair She said that you gave it to her That night that you planned to go clear.
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English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill.
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I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.
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Every heart to Love will come, but like a refugee
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The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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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'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
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Other people singing my songs is something that I've never been casual about. I've always been very touched by it and I always go into immediate critical suspension.
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History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison Of all they want to keep.
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I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before us, I know we are not new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but now it's come to distances and both of us must try, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.
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I can't run no more with that lawless crowd while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned, they've summoned up a thundercloud and they're going to hear from me. Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows old from touching others
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The troubles came and I saved what I could save. A thread of light, a particle, a wave.
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Some people are graced with a flow; some people are graced with something less than a flow. I'm one of those.
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You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.
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Love is not a victory march
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It's easy to look down from the summit you've reached, or even the summit I've reached, and talk about the responsibilities of the artist, but most people are just trying to get their foot in the door and make a living.
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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 greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?
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Leonard Cohen
- Born: September 21, 1934
- Died: November 10, 2016
- Occupation: Singer-songwriter
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