Leonard Cohen Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

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

2. 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. Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs

3. I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is and all he was a thousand kisses deep.

4. only one thingmade him happyand now thatit was goneeverythingmade him happy Book of Longing

5. At first first nothing will happen to usand later on it will happen to us again.

6. Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President's Elegy Or A Nude Hunchback Acquiring A Tan On The Crowded Oily Beach.

7. Deprivation is the mother of poetry. The Favorite Game

8. I heard of a manwho says words so beautifullythat if he only speaks their namewomen give themselves to him.If I am dumb beside your bodywhile silence blossoms like tumors on our lipsit is because I hear a man climb stairsand clear his throat outside our door.

9. It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was areal mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was butone mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed andchanged into itself over and over. Beautiful Losers

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

11. Show me slowly what I onlyknow the limits ofDance me to the end of love Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs

12. 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.

13. There is a crack in everything.That's how the light gets in. Selected Poems, 1956-1968

14. Who could have foretoldthe heart grows oldfrom touching others The Energy of Slaves