Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The obstacles are great and the suffering is great and people have got to make a living. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I've never sold widely enough to be able to relax about money. I had two kids and their mother to support and… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I kind of limp along like so many of us do in these realms. Occasionally I've felt the grace of another presence… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I’ll be marching through the morning, Marching through the night, Moving 'cross the borders Of My Secret Life. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Your heart opens and of course you're completely panicked because you're used to guarding this organ with your life. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
It's the notion that there is no perfection - that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
In My Secret Life" "I saw you this morning, you were moving so fast. Can't seem to loosen my grip On the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Don't matter if you're rich and strong Don't matter if you're weak Don't matter if you write a song The nightingales repeat… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
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… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Anyone who's been a heavy drinker and heavy smoker and has the good future to survive that and give it up knows… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask. If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I like life on the road. It's a lot easier than civilian life. You kind of feel like you're in a motorcycle… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day. Leonard Cohen — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Baby, I've been waiting, I've been waiting night and day I didn't see the time, I waited half my life away” — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I smile when I'm angry , I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“I didn't kill myself when things went wrong I didn't turn to drugs or teaching I tried to sleep but when I… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul... — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Don't matter if you're rich and strong Don't matter if you're weak Don't matter if you write a song The nightingales repeat Don't matter… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“You don't know me from the wind you never will, you never did I'm the little jew who wrote the Bible. I've seen the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“This is it I’m not coming after you I’m going to lie down for half an hour This is it I’m not going down… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can... reconcile and embrace… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs]. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes. It's useful because it addresses the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Blessed are you, embrace of the falling, foundation of the light, master of the human accident.” — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
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