“so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos...So ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack in everythingThat’s how the light gets in.”
Leonard Cohen“Show me slowly what I onlyknow the limits ofDance me to the end of love”
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs“so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos...So ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack in everythingThat’s how the light gets in.”
Leonard Cohen“first of all nothing will happen and a little laternothing will happen again”
Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing“It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple”
Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game“My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone.”
Leonard Cohen“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. It's for others it's for others to use. ”
Leonard Cohen“I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.”
Leonard Cohen“Success is survival.”
Leonard Cohen“Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. ”
Leonard Cohen“Music is the emotional life of most people.”
Leonard Cohen