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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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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

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Poetry
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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

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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. – Taylor Momsen

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Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. – Helen Dunmore

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Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. – Walter Scott

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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out…. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. – A.E. Housman

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