Maybe we, the cultural workers , could apply ourselves. We're not going to resolve it in this moment or even in this… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I don't have any sense or urgency about any of my writing, actually. I don't think mankind will be damaged if I… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
There are some people who come to me for some illumination on their problems. I guess they feel I'm writing about some… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I'd written a lot of songs with hummingbirds in them. None of them ever came to anything, but I did write a… — 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
There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They're the great writers. I'm just… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines. — 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
I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I have to finish it in order to know whether it deserves to survive. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence. — 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
“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
People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a… — 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
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
