It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get up each morning is to make a kind of peace. Leonard Cohen More Quotes by Leonard Cohen More Quotes From Leonard Cohen Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song. Leonard Cohen song men world I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly. Leonard Cohen provinces minors trying Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity. Leonard Cohen affirmation deities worship In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. Leonard Cohen deeds-done good-deeds dream Other people singing my songs is something that I've never been casual about. I've always been very touched by it and I always go into immediate critical suspension. Leonard Cohen singing song people A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. Leonard Cohen allies battle love My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs. Leonard Cohen song pay attention Your servant here, he has been told to say it clear, to say it cold: It's over, it ain't going any further And now the wheels of heaven stop you feel the devil's riding crop Get ready for the future: it is murder Leonard Cohen riding devil heaven Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth One more thin gypsy thief... Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes I thought it was there for good so I never tried... And Jane came by with a lock of your hair She said that you gave it to her That night that you planned to go clear. Leonard Cohen eye hair night In streams of light I clearly saw The dust you seldom see, Out of which the Nameless makes A Name for one like me... All busy in the sunlight The flecks did float and dance, And I was tumbled up with them In formless circumstance. Leonard Cohen dust light names It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heart’s ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it. Leonard Cohen ocean heart reality I don't even hate books anymore. Leonard Cohen hate book i would like to remind the management that the drinks are watered and the hat-check girl has syphilis and the band is composed of former ss monsters However since it is new year's eve and i have lip cancer i will place my paper hat on my concussion and dance Leonard Cohen cancer new-year girl Seriousness is the deepest pleasure we have. Leonard Cohen seriousness pleasure I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet. Leonard Cohen men looks thinking I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use. Leonard Cohen use writing giving When you're younger, you do have that thing that you were talking about where the mouth goes dry. I mean you have reactions, and you do fall in love. Leonard Cohen falling-in-love talking mean My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear as you gather up my days. Your name is the sweetness of time, and you carry me close into the night, speaking consolations, drawing down lights from the sky, saying, See how the night has no terrors for one who remembers the name. Leonard Cohen sky heart night Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work. Leonard Cohen 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.' Leonard Cohen things mess moments world
