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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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We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless theyre paid for it. – 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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I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me. – Eugenio Montale

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And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written. – Mark Strand

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Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. Im not saying Ive got the answers, just a of questions that I dont hear other artists asking. – Malcolm Wilson

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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. – Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous, 1957

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