Leonard Norman Cohen, CC GOQ was a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, poet, novelist, and painter. His work mostly explored religion, politics, isolation, sexuality, and personal relationships.
Born: September 21, 1934, Canada
Died : November 7, 2016, USA
Quotes :
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
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