Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. – Leonard Cohen
I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. Thats what sitting on your ass does to your face. – Leonard Cohen
The ages of seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder. – Leonard Cohen