576 Quotes by Leonard Cohen

Listen to the one who has not been wounded, the one who says, ‘It is not good that man should be alone.’ Recall your longing to the loneliness where it was born, so that when she appears, she will stand before you, not against you. Refine your longing here, in the small silver music of her preparations, under the low-built shelter of repentance.

Like any joker, he was watching For the card that is so high and wild He’ll never need to deal another He was just some Joseph looking for a manger.

You go your way I’ll go your way too.

I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I’m up against.

Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.

I’m neither left or right. I’m just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen.

Blessed be the covenant of love between what is hidden and what is revealed.

I want history to jump on Canada’s spine with sharp skates.

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic ’til I’m gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love.