"Deprivation is the mother of poetry." — Leonard Cohen
"Deprivation is the mother of poetry."
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Leonard Cohen
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253 Quotes by Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen has 253 quotes on this site.
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain.…
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
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When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about…
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out…
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We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in…
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will…
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is…
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety,…
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
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More Deprivation Quotes
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Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers.
— Michele Bachmann
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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir…
— Theodore Bikel
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It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies…
— John Bolton
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Hardships can deprive mortals of the power to ACT. But at the same time, hardships can be the means of…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived…
— Clive James
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Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a…
— Frederik Willem de Klerk
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Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign
— Frederik Willem de Klerk
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To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
— Marya Mannes
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If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,…
— Helen Keller
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The mayors fund for London will be a streamlined vehicle for getting money from the wealth creating sector to communities…
— Boris Johnson
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Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion…
— Irene Khan
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Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It…
— Navi Pillay
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