Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poe… — Quoted

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“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”

Leonard Cohen · Poetry

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Leonard Cohen

Music is the emotional life of most people.

Music

Leonard Cohen

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

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Leonard Cohen

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.

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Leonard Cohen

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

Dreams