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Leonard Cohen
Canadian
September 21, 1934
Musician
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Leonard Cohen
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Poetry
Just
Life
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
Leonard Cohen
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Love
Were
Her
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Leonard Cohen
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He
Man
Child
I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.
Leonard Cohen
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Like
Really
Thing
When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.
Leonard Cohen
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You
About
Just
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
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Me
Had
Even
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
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Life
Your
Well
As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.
Leonard Cohen
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Me
Really
Life
We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?
Leonard Cohen
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Work
People
Me
