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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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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. – 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]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets… – Sir William Jones, “On the Philosophy of the Asiaticks” (eleventh anniversary di

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For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry. – Paul Muldoon

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Poetry

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies. – Eugenio Montale

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Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous. – Galway Kinnell

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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now. – P. T. Barnum

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There isnt any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done. – Aldous Huxley

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