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From Quotes by Leonard Cohen
- I listen to the radio and I like all kinds of music, you know, but I like to hear from people who have been there.…
- Well, you know, there's depression and depression. What I mean by depression in my own case is that depression isn't just the blues. It's not…
- Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.
- What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather than a hunger…
- I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because…
- If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the life of a…
- It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get…
- Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth One more thin gypsy thief Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from…
- My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear as you gather…
- Now suzanne takes you hand And she leads you to the river She is wearing rags and feathers From salvation army counters And the sun…
- From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which…
- Maybe there's a God above, As for me, all I've ever seemed to learn from love Is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you.…
- Hallelujah" "Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bathing on the roof. Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you. She tied…
- Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked,…
- A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
- After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
- I can't run no more with that lawless crowd while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned, they've summoned…
- In Montreal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves and the flesh…
- Well I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
- Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if…
- Who could have foretold the heart grows old from touching others
- You should go from place to place recovering the poems that have been written for you to which you can affix your signature. Don't discuss…
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