Leonard Cohen Quotes
I walk through the old yellow sunlightto get to my kitchen tablethe poem about melying there with the booksin which I am listedamong the dead and future Dylans
Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.
Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
Though I love your company, your instructions are wasted her. I will always choose the woman who caries me off, I will always sit with the family of loneliness.
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple
If I spelled out the Principles of FaithI would be barking on the moon.
I know she is coming I know she will look And that is the longing And this is the book.
The RemoteI often think about youwhen I’m lying alone inmy room with my mouthopen and the remotelost somewhere in the bed.
Dear friend, I have searched all nightthrough each burnt paper, but I fear I will never findthe formula to let you die
Remember when I moved in you and the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was, "Hallelujah.
It looks like freedom but it feels like death, it's something in between I guess. It's closing time.
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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.
My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10, 000 nights I spent alone.