A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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.
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
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.
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.
Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.
Leonard Cohen went to Columbia University.
Film Director Lian Lunson made a documentary about Leonard Cohen, called Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man in 2006.
Leonard Cohen's astrological star sign is Virgo.
Leonard was discovered by John H. Hammond, the Columbia Records man who discovered other famous faces such as Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan.
Leonard started writing poetry thanks to his mother's encouragement. According to Cohen, he knew singing would impress girls.
Leonard was mentioned in Nirvana's song Pennyroyal Tea, 'Give me a leonard cohen afterworld, so I can sigh enternally'. Kurt Cobain, Nirvana's guitarist, used to be a great fan of Leonard.
Judy Collins recorded one of his songs, Suzanne, for her In My Life album in 1966.
Cohen is suing his business manager of 17 years, Kelley Lynch, for allegedly defrauding him of millions of dollars.
Cohen's music has often been used as soundtracks in films. In Natural Born Killers (1994) his songs The Future, Waiting for the Miracle, and Anthem from the album The Future were used.
In 2006, Cohen is inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Cohen refused the Governor General's Award in 1968 for Selected Poems 1956–1968.
After the Future tour in 1993, Leonard Cohen lived several years at the Zen Center on Mount Baldy in California.
His father died when Leonard was only 9 years old.
At the age of 17 when he attended McGill University, he formed a country-western trio called the Buckskin Boys.
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