He never described himself as a poet or his work as poetry. The fact that the lines do not come to the edge of the page is no guarantee. Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation. He hated to argue about the techniques of verse. The poem is a dirty, bloody, burning thing that has to be grabbed first with bare hands. Once the fire celebrated Light, the dirt Humility, the blood Sacrifice. Now the poets are professional fire-eaters, freelancing at any carnival. The fire goes down easily and honours no one in particular.

Leonard Cohen

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You came to me this morning
And you handled me like meat
You’d have to be a man to know
How good that feels, how sweet

Leonard Cohen

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I don't want to be a star, merely dying.

Leonard Cohen

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It's four in the morning, the end of december
I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.

Leonard Cohen

Mots clés famous-blue-raincoat

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We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

Leonard Cohen

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Show me slowly what I only
know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love

Leonard Cohen

Mots clés love knowledge poetry dance epistemology cohen

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If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn
they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.

Leonard Cohen

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So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed
it would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed
It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.

Leonard Cohen

Mots clés love infidelity

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Everything has a crack in it; that's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

Mots clés poignant

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Now Suzanne takes your hand
and she leads you to the river
She is wearing rags and feathers
from Salvation Army counters
And the sun pours down like honey
on our lady of the harbour
And she shows you where to look
among the garbage and the flowers

Leonard Cohen

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