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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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The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and its overturned the order of the soul… – Leonard Cohen

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Soul
Author
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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Pollution
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Leonard Cohen
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I have epiphanies all the time, because Im always thinking. Im a thinker. Im always writing poetry, Im always coming to conclusions. – Chrisette Michele

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Poetry

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. – Seamus Heaney

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Poetry

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

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Poetry

Always be a poet, even in prose. – Charles Baudelaire, “My Heart Laid Bare,” Intimate Journals, 1864

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