Poetry Quote by Leonard Cohen — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“first of all nothing will happen”

“Bind me to your will, bind me with these threads of sorrow, and gather me out of the afternoon where I have torn my soul on twenty monstrous altars, offering all things but myself.”

“Deprivation is the mother of poetry.”

“At first first nothing will happen to us”

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

“It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a”

“All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice.”

“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew.”

“a silent night. - the most eloquent poem i have ever read.”

“I shivered in those”

“Language has not the power to speak what love indites”

“But he calls down a blessing on the blossom of the may,”