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Letter "L" » Leonard Cohen Quotes
«The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
blizzard, crossed, Order of, overturn, overturned, overturning, The Order, threshold
«Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
Delicious, disagreeable, element, manifests, piece of work, social activity, startle, startling, subversion, subversions, subversive
«Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
accustomed, armor, chunk, chunks, converse, conversing, dulling, eleven, fabled, forgetting, huge, Seven Wonders, visit
«The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
catastrophe, catastrophes, clinical, clinical depression, conversations, depression, landscape, occurred, psychic, These Days
«Well I've seen your flag on the marble arch and love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
arch, broken arch, flag, hallelujah, march
«Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
acute, generals, General will, Judges, killing, priests, secretly, The Verdict, triumph, verdicts
«What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
atmosphere, creators, desperate, Germany, Hitler, systems
«To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
covenant, guarantee, perceived, sovereign, sweetest
«I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
designs, gallant, Jackie, Kennedy, Queen of, Queen of England, resented, the Queen, tops, uniforms, victimized, victimizing
«Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
confession, filter, filtered, filtering, filters, refined, region
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