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

“so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos...”

“Who could have foretold”

“Deprivation is the mother of poetry.”

“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.”

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

“…wisely mingled poetry and prose.”

“For of all sad words of tongue or pen,”

“But I don't shut up and I don't die.”

“If you only write when you’re inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist because you’re going to have to make your word count today and those words aren’t going to wait for you whether you’re inspired or not.”

“I twist like a flower”

“But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was civilization but the intellect's ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of the finely superfluous (poetry, handbags and haute cuisine)? So removed from daily life was the whole experience that when all was rotten to the core, a fine dinner could revive the spirits. If and when I had twenty dollars left to my name, I was going to invest it right here in an elegant hour that couldn't be hocked.”