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“I don't even hate books anymore.”

Leonard Cohen

“I know she is coming
I know she will look
And that is the longing
And this is the book.”

Leonard Cohen book Book of Longing

Source: Book of Longing

“Believe nothing of me
except that I felt your beauty
more closely than my own.”

Leonard Cohen

Source: The Spice Box of Earth

“Everything has a crack in it; that's how the light gets in.”

Leonard Cohen

"Anthem"
The Future (1992)
Variant: There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
Source: Selected Poems, 1956-1968
Context: Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.

“If you are the dealer, I'm out of the game
If you are the healer, it means I'm broken and lame
If thine is the glory then mine must be the shame
You want it darker
We kill the flame

Magnified, sanctified, be thy holy name
Vilified, crucified, in the human frame
A million candles burning for the help that never came
You want it darker

Hineni, hineni
I'm ready, my Lord”

Leonard Cohen

"You Want It Darker" · Full text online http://genius.com/Leonard-cohen-you-want-it-darker-lyrics · YouTube audio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0nmHymgM7Y <br class="br">You Want It Darker (2016)

“I fought against the bottle
but I had to do it drunk”

Leonard Cohen

"That Don't Make It Junk", Ten New Songs (2001)
Other Lyrics

“The captain called me to his bed and fumbled for my hand
"Take these silver bars," he said, "I'm giving you command."
Command of what? There's no on here. There's only you and me.
The rest are dead or in retreat or with the enemy.
"Complain, complain, that's all you've done ever since we lost,
If it's not the crucifixion then it's the holocaust."”

Leonard Cohen

"The Captain"
Various Positions (1984)

“Every heart to love will come
But like a refugee.”

Leonard Cohen

"Anthem"
The Future (1992)

“"You have loved enough, now let me be the lover." You could say that God is speaking to you or the cosmos, or your lover. It just means, like, Forget it. Lean back and be loved by all that is already loving you. It is your effort at love that is preventing you from experiencing it. It is like if you ever taught kids how to swim. The most difficult thing is Goddam to understand that they will float, if they relax, if they hold their breath and relax, they will actually float. For most kids it is difficult to swim. They feel they are going to sink like a stone to the bottom of the lake.”

Leonard Cohen

On the lyrics to "You Have Loved Enough" in an interview released at the Ten New Songs site (2001)

“Here is your cross,
Your nails and your hill;
And here is your love,
That lists where it will”

Leonard Cohen

"Here It Is"
Ten New Songs (2001)

“Rust rust rust
in the engines of love and time”

Leonard Cohen book Flowers for Hitler

"Front Lawn", Flowers for Hitler (1964)

“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.”

Leonard Cohen

"The Stranger Song"
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)

“I told you when I came I was a stranger.”

Leonard Cohen

"The Stranger Song"
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)

“We're drinking and we're dancing
but there's nothing really happening.
The place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night.”

Leonard Cohen

"Closing Time"
The Future (1992)

“Here I stand, I'm your man.”

Leonard Cohen

"I'm Your Man"
I'm Your Man (1988)

“People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure. I just set out to write what I felt as honestly as I could, and I am delighted when other people feel a part of themselves in the music.”

Leonard Cohen

As quoted in Los Angeles Times (24 September 1995)

“You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure.
The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor.
And there's a mighty Judgement coming
but I may be wrong…”

Leonard Cohen

"Tower Of Song"
I'm Your Man (1988)

“Now, I don't want to give you the impression that I'm a great musicologist, but I'm a lot better than what I was described as for a long, long time; you know, people said I only knew three chords when I knew five.”

Leonard Cohen

Interview with BBC Radio 1FM (1994)

“I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had to have written one word that I didn't want to write, to be able to have satisfied that dictum I set for myself, which was not to work for pay, but to be paid for my work — just to be able to satisfy those standards that I set for myself has been an enormous privilege.”

Leonard Cohen

Interview with BBC Radio 1FM (1994)

“They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within
I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.”

Leonard Cohen

"First We Take Manhattan" (written in 1986) - Leonard Cohen video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTTC_fD598A - Jennifer Warnes & Leonard Cohen video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0rZ2CPCYBQ <br class="br">I'm Your Man (1988)