Quote by Leonard Cohen
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well,

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. – 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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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. – 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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Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. – Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Poetry is its own medium its very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment. – Story Musgrave

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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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More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry. – Saul Williams

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