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 More Quotes by Leonard Cohen More Quotes From Leonard Cohen I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen. Leonard Cohen tonight home littles To the men and women who own men and women Leonard Cohen body love men Well it's true, ever since I stopped eating meat I feel a lot better among animals, I feel I can be much more honest when I pat a dog. Leonard Cohen meat dog animal How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings Leonard Cohen pills lasts morning A poem has a certain - a different time. For instance, a poem is a very private experience, and it doesn't have a driving tempo. In other words, you know, you can go back and forward; you can comeback; you can linger. You know, it's a completely different time reference. Leonard Cohen comeback driving different Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail on, sail on, sail on. Leonard Cohen greed hate past The troubles came and I saved what I could save. A thread of light, a particle, a wave. Leonard Cohen wave light trouble I want to be paid for my work, not work for my pay. Leonard Cohen paid want pay I don't have a television set up [in the mountains], of course, but I find I don't miss it at all, or the newspaper. I've sneaked a radio into by cabin, but I find I turn it on very rarely. Leonard Cohen cabins mountain missing [Prozac] didn't seem to have any effect whatsoever on my melancholy, my dark vision, and everything else that I'd taken it for. Leonard Cohen vision taken dark The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief. Leonard Cohen swimming moon summer He knew that hair couldn't feel; he kissed her hair. Leonard Cohen hair feels Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone. Leonard Cohen departed mercy gone Maybe we, the cultural workers , could apply ourselves. We're not going to resolve it in this moment or even in this generation, but perhaps as some kind of agenda we could invite our writers and cultural workers to address the problem a little more responsibly, because people are suffering tremendously from a want of data. Leonard Cohen data suffering people I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows Leonard Cohen damnation rainbow prison [I had a sense of interior panic].Always. I didn't really know what to call it for a long time, but I have a friend in Greece who used that word panic a lot, and I found myself resisting it, until I totally accepted that as a precise description of my interior condition. It was mostly panic from one moment to the next. And nothing much else was going on. Leonard Cohen panic next long I smile when I'm angry , I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right , and I'd die for the truth in my secret life . Leonard Cohen i-smile secret lying I think culture's always been violent, and it is something we find very entertaining. Not only does it reflect our social reality, but it also reflects our psychic reality. Leonard Cohen psychics reality thinking Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President's Elegy Or A Nude Hunchback Acquiring A Tan On The Crowded Oily Beach. Leonard Cohen perfect morning beach And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty. Leonard Cohen sexuality figures fists
