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Leonard Cohen Quotes | Quotes said by Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen Quote #1

... i didn't fall in love of course
it's never up to you
but she was walking back and forth
and i was passing through

Leonard Cohen Quote #2

Ah, grief makes us precise!
Leonard Cohen Quote #3

And I'll dance with you in Vienna,
I'll be wearing a river's disguise.
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder
my mouth on the dew of your thighs.
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,
with the photographs there and the moss.
And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty,
my cheap violin and my cross.
Leonard Cohen Quote #4

And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies.
Leonard Cohen Quote #5

At first first nothing will happen to us
and later on
it will happen to us again.
Leonard Cohen Quote #6

Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President's Elegy Or A Nude Hunchback Acquiring A Tan On The Crowded Oily Beach.
Leonard Cohen Quote #7

Believe nothing of me
except that I felt your beauty
more closely than my own.
Leonard Cohen Quote #8

Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
Leonard Cohen Quote #9

Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
Leonard Cohen Quote #10

DEAR DIARY
You are greater than the Bible
And the Conference of the Birds
And the Upanishads
All put together
You are more severe
Than the Scriptures
And Hammurabi’s Code
More dangerous than Luther’s paper
Nailed to the Cathedral door
You are sweeter
Than the Song of Songs
Mightier by far
Than the Epic of Gilgamesh
And braver
Than the Sagas of Iceland
I bow my head in gratitude
To the ones who give their lives
To keep the secret
The daily secret
Under lock and key
Dear Diary
I mean no disrespect
But you are more sublime
Than any Sacred Text
Sometimes just a list
Of my events
Is holier than the Bill of Rights
And more intense
Leonard Cohen Quote #11

Dear friend, I have searched all night
through each burnt paper,
but I fear I will never find
the formula to let you die
Leonard Cohen Quote #12

Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
Leonard Cohen Quote #13

Ett ärr är vad som uppstår när ordet blir kött.
Leonard Cohen Quote #14

Except for a couple of hours
in the morning
which I passed in the company
of a sage
I stayed in bed
without food
only a few mouthfuls of water
“you are a fine looking old man”
I said to myself in the mirror
“and what is more
you have the correct attitude
You don’t care if it ends
or if it goes on
And as for the women
and the music
there will be plenty of that
in Paradise”
Then I went to the Mosque
of Memory
to express my gratitude
Leonard Cohen Quote #15

first of all nothing will happen
and a little later
nothing will happen again
Leonard Cohen Quote #16

Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.
Leonard Cohen Quote #17

How quickly pettiness returns, and that most ignoble form of real estate, the possessive occupation and tyranny over two square inches of human flesh, the wife's cunt.
Leonard Cohen Quote #18

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 kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.
Leonard Cohen Quote #19

I heard of a man
who says words so beautifully
that if he only speaks their name
women give themselves to him.

If I am dumb beside your body
while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips
it is because I hear a man climb stairs
and clear his throat outside our door.
Leonard Cohen Quote #20

I know she is coming
I know she will look
And that is the longing
And this is the book.
Leonard Cohen Quote #21

I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is and all he was a thousand kisses deep.
Leonard Cohen Quote #22

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.
Leonard Cohen Quote #23

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.
Leonard Cohen Quote #24

I walk through the old yellow sunlight
to get to my kitchen table
the poem about me
lying there with the books
in which I am listed
among the dead and future Dylans
Leonard Cohen Quote #25

I'm old and the mirrors don't lie.
Leonard Cohen Quote #26

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
Leonard Cohen Quote #27

If I spelled out the Principles of Faith
I would be barking on the moon.
Leonard Cohen Quote #28

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
Leonard Cohen Quote #29

It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple
Leonard Cohen Quote #30

It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a
real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was but
one mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed and
changed into itself over and over.

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