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

Other quotes by 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

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Reflection
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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
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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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Hurt, Injury
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Poetry
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine. – Jack Prelutsky

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Poetry

The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But its not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it Ive met, and think theyre incredibly witty, inventive – theres a lot of poetry there. – Martin Amis

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Poetry
[A poem] begins in delight and ends in wisdom. – Robert Frost, “The Figure a Poem Makes,” Collected Poems of Robert Frost, 1939

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Poetry

That is what I did with Jack, and thats why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music. – David Amram

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Poetry

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In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated. – John McCarthy

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In judging ourselves, we cannot be too severe; in judging others, we cannot be too candid. We should judge ourselves by our motives, but others by their actions. – William Nevins (1797–1835)

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Integrity

If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future. – King Abdullah II

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Future

I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I dont handle fear very well Im not a good terrified person. – Stevie Nicks

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Fear