576 Quotes by Leonard Cohen

There is a crack in everything.That's how the light gets in.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

And I'll dance with you in Vienna,I'll be wearing a river's disguise.The hyacinth wild on my shouldermy mouth on the dew of your thighs.And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,with the photographs there and the moss.And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty,my cheap violin and my cross.

... i didn't fall in love of courseit's never up to youbut she was walking back and forthand i was passing through

There is only one emotion which money has ever extended to idealism - contempt."- Loneliness and History

first of all nothing will happen and a little laternothing will happen again

Show me slowly what I onlyknow the limits ofDance me to the end of love

Deprivation is the mother of poetry.

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore