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1 " And I'll dance with you in Vienna,I'll be wearing a river's disguise.The hyacinth wild on my shouldermy 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 , Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
2 " ... i didn't fall in love of courseit's never up to youbut she was walking back and forthand i was passing through "
― Leonard Cohen , Book of Longing
3 " It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was areal mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was butone mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed andchanged into itself over and over. "
― Leonard Cohen , Beautiful Losers
4 " 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
5 " There is a crack in everything.That's how the light gets in. "
― Leonard Cohen , Selected Poems, 1956-1968
6 " first of all nothing will happen and a little laternothing will happen again "
7 " Deprivation is the mother of poetry. "
― Leonard Cohen , The Favorite Game
8 " so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos...So ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack in everythingThat’s how the light gets in. "
9 " Who could have foretoldthe heart grows oldfrom touching others "
― Leonard Cohen , The Energy of Slaves
10 " I heard of a manwho says words so beautifullythat if he only speaks their namewomen give themselves to him.If I am dumb beside your bodywhile silence blossoms like tumors on our lipsit is because I hear a man climb stairsand clear his throat outside our door. "
11 " At first first nothing will happen to usand later on it will happen to us again. "
12 " 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 "
13 " Your faith was strong, but you needed proof... "
14 " 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. "
15 " I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world. "
16 " DEAR DIARYYou are greater than the BibleAnd the Conference of the BirdsAnd the UpanishadsAll put togetherYou are more severeThan the ScripturesAnd Hammurabi’s CodeMore dangerous than Luther’s paperNailed to the Cathedral doorYou are sweeterThan the Song of SongsMightier by farThan the Epic of GilgameshAnd braverThan the Sagas of IcelandI bow my head in gratitudeTo the ones who give their livesTo keep the secretThe daily secretUnder lock and keyDear DiaryI mean no disrespectBut you are more sublimeThan any Sacred TextSometimes just a listOf my eventsIs holier than the Bill of RightsAnd more intense "
17 " Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say. "
18 " There is a crack, a crack, in everything. That's how the light gets in. "
― Leonard Cohen , The Future
19 " Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore "
20 " Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in. "
