Canadian - Musician | September 21, 1934 - November 7, 2016
Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.
Leonard Cohen
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There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
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When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.
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This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can... reconcile and embrace the whole mess, and that's what I mean by 'Hallelujah.'
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I like life on the road. It's a lot easier than civilian life. You kind of feel like you're in a motorcycle gang.
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?
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There were times that I thought I was good looking.
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
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We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.
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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.
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