Leonard Cohen quotes - page 7

The light came through the window, Straight from the sun above, And so inside my little room There plunged the rays of Love. (Leonard Cohen)
On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found. View quote
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But he himself was broken Long before the sky would open Forsaken, almost human He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone. View quote
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I was tumbled up with them In formless circumstance. View quote
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I come from a country where we do not have the same struggles as you have. I respect your struggles. And it may surprise you, but I respect both sides of this struggle. View quote
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And you want to travel with her, And you want to travel blind, And you know that she will trust you, For you've touched her perfect body with your mind. View quote
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Ah, you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win. View quote
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I have no program, I have no five-year plan. View quote
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It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love. View quote
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When it all comes down to dust I will kill you if I must, I will help you if I can. View quote
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I know there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. (Leonard Cohen)
I would like to say to you, to the leaders of the left, and the leaders of the right, I sing... I sing for everyone. My song has no flag, my song has no party. View quote
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A saint does not dissolve the chaos; if he did the world would have changed long ago. I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself, for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order. It is a kind of balance that is his glory. View quote
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Please understand, I never had a secret chart to get me to the heart of this or any other matter. View quote
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Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river. View quote
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You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children, you must not do it anymore. View quote
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And she shows you where to look Among the garbage and the flowers. View quote
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Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape. View quote
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And you won't make me jealous if I hear that they sweetened your night: We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be all right. View quote
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A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple. View quote
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Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you're tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty. (Leonard Cohen)
I know she is coming I know she will look And that is the longing And this is the book. View quote
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own. View quote
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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. View quote
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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. View quote
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