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Letter "L" » Leonard Cohen Quotes
«Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.»
«Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.»
«I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.»
«Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
ash, burning, evidence
«The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
insomniac, insomniacs, refuge, sleeping, superiority
«I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.»
«I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before us, I know we are not new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but now it's come to distances and both of us must try, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
Both of Us, distances, forest, good-bye, goodbye, hair, hey, kisses, pillow, sleepy, smiled, soft, storm, The Pillow
«In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
caress, Caresses, caressing, In Dreams
«Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
Prayer
| Keywords:
barely, mastered, translates, translation, translations
«A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
ally, The Battle, uneasily, unreliable
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