I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.” — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
... i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“The crumbs of love that you offer me They're the crumbs I've left behind Your pain is no credential here It's just… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love.. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
When you're younger, you do have that thing that you were talking about where the mouth goes dry. I mean you have… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Here is your cross, Your nails and your hill; And here is your love, That lists where it will — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“THIS ISN’T CHINA Hold me close and tell me what the world is like I don’t want to look outside I want… — 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
I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
To the men and women who own men and women those of us meant to be lovers we will not pardon you… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you. — 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
