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

“I heard of a man”

“first of all nothing will happen”

“Who could have foretold”

“Show me slowly what I only”

“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.”

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

“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.”

“Her close friends have gathered.”

“Gannets”

“Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends.”

“may came home with a smooth round stone”

“I am not a finished poem, and I am not the song you’ve turned me into. I am a detached human being, making my way in a world that is constantly trying to push me aside, and you who send me letters and emails and beautiful gifts wouldn’t even recognise me if you saw me walking down the street where I live tomorrow”