Leonard Cohen citations

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“Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care”

“I have tried in my way to be free.”

“… i didn't fall in love of course
it's never up to you
but she was walking back and forth
and i was passing through”

“I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.”

“As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.”

“The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.”

“I have often prayed for you
like this
Let me have her”

“I remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove she was moving too,
And every single breath that we drew was
Hallelujah.”

“a kite is a victim you are sure of.
you love it because it pulls.”

“Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.”

“I'm planning a catastrophe.”

“Deprivation is the mother of poetry.”

“Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else."

Then let's be quiet together.”

“We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.”

“Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.”

“If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask.

If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask.

If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand.

If you want a partner in life take my hand.

I'm your man.”

“You live your life as if it's real……. a thousand kisses deep”

“My friends are gone and my hair is grey.
I ache in places I used to play.
And I’m crazy for love but I’m not coming on.
I’m just paying my rent every day in the tower of song.”

“I finally broke into the prison
I found my place in the chain
Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows”

“How bitter were
the Prozac pills
of the last
few hundred mornings”

“There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.”

“We are ugly but we have the music.”

“Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.”

“My page was too white
My ink was too thin
The day wouldn't write
What the night pencilled in”

“Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned:
When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned.”

“She was made of flesh and eyelashes.”

“It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.”

“A sip of wine, a cigarette,
And then it’s time to go.
I tidied up the kitchenette;
I tuned the old banjo.
I’m wanted at the traffic-jam.
They’re saving me a seat.”

“If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn,
They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.”