Best Leonard Cohen Quotes
- Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work… Animate
- This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without… Activity
- I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard… Any
- I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. Chanting
- I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words. Became
- 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 songs. Attention
- The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic… Catastrophe
- Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are… Fake
- Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or… Activity
- I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a… Always Thought
- Take one step to the side and it's all absurd. Absurd
- You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece. Emotional
- And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty. Beauty
- Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm Golden
- Does anybody have a cigarette? I'm looking forward to that first smoke. I've been looking forward to [it] for about 30 years. Anybody
- Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you. Fare
- A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. Flesh
- I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog. Called
- Like any joker, he was watching For the card that is so high and wild He'll never need to deal another He was just some… Any
- Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. Clean
- I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before… Both
- Love is not a victory march Life
- I'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I were one of… All
- I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events. Always Held
- Suzanne had a room on a waterfront street in the port of Montreal. Everything happened just as it was put down. She was the wife… Appropriate
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