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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

Other quotes by Leonard Cohen

I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms. – Leonard Cohen

Category:
Royalty, Kings, Queens
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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

Category:
Hurt, Injury
Author
Leonard Cohen
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I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. Its for others its for others to use. – Leonard Cohen

Category:
Poetry
Author
Leonard Cohen
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Poetry
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The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity. – George Oppen

Category:
Poetry

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. – Charles Baudelaire

Category:
Poetry

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry. – Philip Levine

Category:
Poetry

The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. – Dylan Thomas

Category:
Poetry

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not. – Aeschylus

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