I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“How may we be saints and live in golden coffins Who will leave on our stone shelves pathetic notes for intervention How… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Dearest Shell, If you let me I'd always keep you 400 miles away and write you pretty poems and letters. . .I'm… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls gentle enough to call you master, strong… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and… — 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
All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then,… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“I walk through the old yellow sunlight to get to my kitchen table the poem about me lying there with the books… — 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
A poem has a certain - a different time. For instance, a poem is a very private experience, and it doesn't have… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
A song, you know, you've got a tempo. You know,you've got something that is moving swiftly. You can't stop it, you know?… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“All things can be done whisper museum ovens of a war that freedom won.” — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“A Kite is a Victim A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls gentle enough… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Dear friend, I have searched all night through each burnt paper, but I fear I will never find the formula to let… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
GIFT You tell me that silence is nearer to peace than poems but if for my gift I brought you silence (for… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“The flowers that I left in the ground, that I did not gather for you, today I bring them all back, to… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos... So ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
You should go from place to place recovering the poems that have been written for you to which you can affix your… — 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
