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The wars they will be fought again The holy dove be caught again bought and sold and bought again; the dove is never free.
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Nothing can stop you from thinking. The human mind is designed to think continually.
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A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.
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The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.
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And what can I tell you, my brother, my killer, what can I possibly say? I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I'm glad you stood in my way
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I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.
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You were Marlon Brando, I was Steve McQueen, you were K.Y. Jelly, I was Vaseline.
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My page was too white
My ink was too thin
The day wouldn't write
What the night pencilled in.
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A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love...
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And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths.
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The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...
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The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief.
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One is distracted by this notion that there is such an thing as inspiration, that it comes fast and easy. And some people are graced by that style. I'm not. So I have to work as hard as any stiff to come up with my payload
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Songs don't dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song.
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Then Dylan says to me, 'As far as I'm concerned, Leonard, you're Number 1. I'm Number Zero.' Meaning, as I understood it at the time — and I was not ready to dispute it — that his work was beyond measure and my work was pretty good.
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I am running through a snowfall which is her thighs, he dramatized in purple. Her thighs are filling up the street. Wide as a snowfall, heavy as huge falling Zeppelins, her damp thighs are settling on the sharp roofs and wooden balconies. Weather-vanes press the shape of roosters and sail-boats into the skin. The faces of famous statues are preserved like intaglios....
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I took trip after trip, sitting on my terrace in Greece, waiting to see God. Generally, I ended up with a bad hangover.
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And clenching your fist for the ones like us who are oppressed by the figures of beauty, you fixed yourself, you said, "Well never mind, we are ugly but we have the music."
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You whisper, "You have loved enough,
Now let me be the Lover."
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I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
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Like any dealer he was watching for the card
that is so high and wild
he'll never need to deal another.
He was just some Joseph looking for a manger.
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I see you standing on the other side.
I don't know how the river got so wide.
I loved you, baby, way back when.
And all the bridges are burning that
We might have crossed and I feel so close to everything that we've lost.
We'll never, we'll never have to lose it again. Now I bid You farewell, I don't when I'll be back.
They're moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track.
But you'll be hearing from me, baby, long after I'm gone.
I'll speaking to you sweetly
From a window in the Tower Of Song
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A sip of wine, a cigarette, And then it's time to go. I tidied up the kitchenette; I tuned the old banjo. I'm wanted at the traffic-jam. They're saving me a seat.
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I never had the sense that there was an end. That there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot.
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Joy is like restless day; but peace divine Like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, — till perfect Day shall shine Through Peace to Light.
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Born:
September 21, 1934
Died:
November 7, 2016
(aged 82)
Bio:
Leonard Norman Cohen was a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, poet, novelist, and painter. His work mostly explored religion, politics, isolation, sexuality, and personal relationships.
Known for:
Popular Problems (2014)
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Old Ideas (2012)
The Future (1992)
Songs from a Room (1969)
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