Leonard Cohen

“You go to Heaven once you've been to Hell”

— Leonard Cohen

What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather…

— Leonard Cohen

[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think…

— Leonard Cohen

The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On…

— Leonard Cohen

Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.

— Leonard Cohen

“a fresh spiderweb billowing like a spinnaker across the open window and here he is the little master sailing by on a…

— Leonard Cohen

When we are touched by a song, it is because the artist cannot hide himself.

— Leonard Cohen

I was born in a suit.

— Leonard Cohen

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

You go your way I'll go your way too

— Leonard Cohen

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this…

— Leonard Cohen

The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.

— Leonard Cohen

The art of longing's over, and it's never coming back.

— Leonard Cohen

Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love

— Leonard Cohen

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows…

— Leonard Cohen

I have tried in my way to be free.

— Leonard Cohen

I’ll be marching through the morning, Marching through the night, Moving 'cross the borders Of My Secret Life.

— Leonard Cohen

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied. Everybody got this broken feeling, like their father or their…

— Leonard Cohen

“I must go now." "Stay up the night with me! We'll go to the fish market. There are great noble monsters packed…

— Leonard Cohen

“Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets…

— Leonard Cohen

In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.

— Leonard Cohen

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

— Leonard Cohen

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

— Leonard Cohen

I am not the one who loves - It's love that chooses me. When hatred with his package comes, you forbid delivery...

— Leonard Cohen

“Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river You can hear the boats go by You can spend the night…

— Leonard Cohen