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Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#genuine #hanging #known #like #look

لمَ أصبت صدري بخنجر الخذلان ؟ بعدما كنت أنت وطني الآمن الذي أفر إليه هاربة خوفاً وفزعاً !! لمَ أهديتني رداء الحزن ؟ في حين كنت بحاجة ليدك لتحتضنني بدفء وتدثرني من صقيع أوجاعي ..! ↗

— نجلاء حسن

#faith #heart #love #reading #success

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#anxiety #background #clinical #collapse #depression

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#back #body #end #exalted #his

You have to believe. You have to stick to your guns. ↗

— Arthur Cohn

#guns #stick #you #your

Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart. ↗

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

#blessed #day #each #gift #giving

If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#go #good #good songs #i #knew

My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#attention #been #i #lost #lot

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#get #i #i am #older #running

It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#be true #been #divided #false #generally