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I never really liked poetry readings I liked to read poetry by mys

I never really liked poetry readings I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. – Leonard Cohen

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Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region. – Leonard Cohen

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The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and its overturned the order of the soul… – 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 hes written poetry then let the verdict be that hes a poet. – Leonard Cohen

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But one does not make living writing poetry unless youre a professor, and one frankly doesnt get a lot of girls as a poet. – Jeffery Deaver

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America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? – Azar Nafisi

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I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but Im glad that I did it. – Tom Glazer

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