Leonard Cohen

“There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.”

“And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the pho...”

“... i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through”

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

“It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in...”

“Though I don't believe, I come to you now, and I lift my doubt to your mercy.”

“I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he...”

“first of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again”

“Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love”

“Deprivation is the mother of poetry.”

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

“so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos... So ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in.”

“Who could have foretold the heart grows old from touching others”

“I heard of a man who says words so beautifully that if he only speaks their name women give themselves to him. If I am dumb beside your body while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips it...”

“Your faith was strong, but you needed proof...”

“Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A Pr...”

“To a Young Nun This undemanding love that our staggered births have purchased for us — You in your generation, I in mine. I am not the one you are looking for. You are not the one I've stopp...”

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

“DEAR DI­ARY You are greater than the Bible And the Con­fer­ence of the Birds And the Up­an­ishads All put to­geth­er You are more se­vere Than the Scrip­tures And Ham­mura­bi’s Code More dan...”

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