Tag: Leonard Cohen
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I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.
Leonard Cohen
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I don’t think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.
Leonard Cohen
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Success is survival.
Leonard Cohen
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I’ve never sold widely enough to be able to relax about money. I had two kids and their mother to support and my own life. So there was never an option of cutting out.
Leonard Cohen
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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.
Leonard Cohen
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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
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Leonard Cohen
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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
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My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico García Lorca.
Leonard Cohen
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
Leonard Cohen