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Leonard Cohen

Read through the most famous quotes from Leonard Cohen




A sip of wine, a cigarette, And then it’s time to go. I tidied up the kitchenette; I tuned the old banjo. I’m wanted at the traffic-jam. They’re saving me a seat.


— Leonard Cohen


#wine

Ah, grief makes us precise!


— Leonard Cohen


#beauty

Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.


— Leonard Cohen


#friendship

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.


— Leonard Cohen


#beauty

ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars


— Leonard Cohen


#beauty

The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.


— Leonard Cohen


#love #subjectivity #humor

And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies.


— Leonard Cohen


#lovers #stars #love

When you call me close to tell me your body is not beautiful I want to summon the eyes and hidden mouths of stone and light and water to testify against you.


— Leonard Cohen


#beauty

If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.


— Leonard Cohen


#love

At first first nothing will happen to us and later on it will happen to us again.


— Leonard Cohen


#life #poetry #life






About Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen Quotes




Did you know about Leonard Cohen?

Cohen has been inducted into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 1992 Cohen released The Future which urges (often in terms of biblical prophecy) perseverance reformation and hope in the face of grim prospects. "
Cohen attended Roslyn Elementary School and from 1948 Westmount High School where he was involved with the student council and studied music and poetry.

His work often explores religion isolation sexuality and interpersonal relationships. Leonard Norman Cohen CC GOQ (born 21 September 1934) is a Canadian singer-songwriter musician poet and novelist. In a speech at Cohen's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 10 March 2008 Lou Reed described Cohen as belonging to the "highest and most influential echelon of songwriters.

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