Leonard Cohen
Singer
1934-09-21 – 2016-11-07
Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist known for his lyrical songwriting and baritone voice. His work had major influence across folk, pop, and literary culture.
Books by Leonard Cohen
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The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition
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Quotes by Leonard Cohen
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Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore
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There is a crack, a crack, in everything. That's how the light gets in.
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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.
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DEAR DIARYYou are greater than the BibleAnd the Conference of the BirdsAnd the UpanishadsAll put togetherYou are more severeThan the ScripturesAnd Hammurabi's CodeMore dangerous than Luther's paperNailed to the Cathedral doorYou are sweeterThan the Song of SongsMightier by farThan the Epic of GilgameshAnd braverThan the Sagas of IcelandI bow my head in gratitudeTo the ones who give their livesTo keep the secretThe daily secretUnder lock and keyDear DiaryI mean no disrespectBut you are more sublimeThan any Sacred TextSometimes just a listOf my eventsIs holier than the Bill of RightsAnd more intense
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I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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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.
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof...
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I walk through the old yellow sunlightto get to my kitchen tablethe poem about melying there with the booksin which I am listedamong the dead and future Dylans
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At first first nothing will happen to usand later on it will happen to us again.
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Who could have foretoldthe heart grows oldfrom touching others
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I heard of a manwho says words so beautifullythat if he only speaks their namewomen give themselves to him.If I am dumb beside your bodywhile silence blossoms like tumors on our lipsit is because I hear a man climb stairsand clear his throat outside our door.
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so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos...So ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack in everythingThat's how the light gets in.
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first of all nothing will happen and a little laternothing will happen again
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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There is a crack in everything.That's how the light gets in.
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I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I'm just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is and all he was a thousand kisses deep.
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It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was areal mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was butone mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed andchanged into itself over and over.
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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... i didn't fall in love of courseit's never up to youbut she was walking back and forthand i was passing through
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