Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it. Leonard Cohen More Quotes by Leonard Cohen More Quotes From Leonard Cohen I heard of a man who says words so beautifully that if he only speaks their name women give themselves to him. If I am dumb beside your body while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips it is because I hear a man climb stairs and clear his throat outside our door. Leonard Cohen namesdoorsmen After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover. Leonard Cohen boredwantmay Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly. Leonard Cohen firelove-isworld Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say. Leonard Cohen speakknows And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies. Leonard Cohen secretnamessky It’s a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier for you and being the first one to exclaim how good the movie is. You depress people. We like apples too. Leonard Cohen applesdepressingpeople I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts Leonard Cohen drunkardscoldfacts I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love. Leonard Cohen his-lovebuttonsoffers Games are nature's most beautiful creation Leonard Cohen creationgamesbeautiful ..you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent Leonard Cohen kentwanted I almost went to bed without remembering the four white violets I put in the button-hole of your green sweater and how i kissed you then and you kissed me shy as though I’d never been your lover Leonard Cohen sweatersfourwhite GIFT You tell me that silence is nearer to peace than poems but if for my gift I brought you silence (for I know silence) you would say This is not silence this is another poem and you would hand it back to me Leonard Cohen silenceknowshands At first first nothing will happen to us and later on it will happen to us again. Leonard Cohen happensfirsts Even without the mushroom cloud still I would have hated Listen I would have done the same things even if there were no death I will not be held like a drunkard under the cold tap of facts I refuse the universal alibi Leonard Cohen mushroomsdoneclouds If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you. Leonard Cohen loverskindwant Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering. Leonard Cohen anxietygriefsuffering I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk. Leonard Cohen riskexpectations Well, I've been waiting, I was sure we'd meet between the trains we're waiting for I think it's time to board another Please understand, I never had a secret chart to get me to the heart of this or any other matter Leonard Cohen waitingheartthinking a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls. Leonard Cohen kitesvictim 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. Leonard Cohen savingwinejam
