"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
-Leonard Cohen
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"I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others it's for others to use.“
-Leonard Cohen
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"In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress."
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"To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself."
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"I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet."
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"Music is the emotional life of most people."
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"Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true."
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"I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty."
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