17 Quotes by Leonard Cohen about Poetry

  • Author Leonard Cohen
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    I pray for courage I pray for courage Now I’m oldTo greet the sickness And the coldI pray for courage In the nightTo bear the burden Make it lightI pray for courageIn the timeWhen suffering comes and Starts to climbI pray for courageAt the endTo see death coming As a friend

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    Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.

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    Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.

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    Though I love your company, your instructions are wasted her. I will always choose the woman who caries me off, I will always sit with the family of loneliness.

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    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

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