The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. – Leonard Cohen
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. – Leonard Cohen

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. – Leonard Cohen
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. – Leonard Cohen
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. – Leonard Cohen
Nature looks dead in winter because her life is gathered into her heart. She withers the plant down to the root that she may grow it up again fairer and stronger. She calls her family together within her inmost home to prepare them for being scattered abroad upon the face of the earth. – Hugh Macmillan, “Rejuvenescence,” The Ministry of Nature, 1871