#w

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#amusement #because #friends #i #know

We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#close #closed #down #experiencing #joy

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#man #objective #reach #song #stand

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#call #certain #dangerous #description #give

I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#also #barely #carry #could #even

I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#deeply #first #i #rhythm #structure

My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Fernando Garcia Lorca. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#garcia #great #heroes #two #yeats

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#always #any #anything #carry #committee

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#attitudes #creative #does #element #eliminated

This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#alternatives #before #best #conservatives #determine