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Leonard Cohen Quote: “I didn’t want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.”

251. “I didn’t want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.”

— Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen Quote: “I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.”

252. “I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.”

— Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen Quote: “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.”

253. “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.”

— Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen Quote: “And I had not much of a voice. I didn’t play that great guitar either.”

254. “And I had not much of a voice. I didn’t play that great guitar either.”

— Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen Quote: “BREAVMAN KNOWS a girl named Shell whose ears were pierced so she could wear the long filigree earrings. The punctures festered and now she has a tiny scar in each earlobe. He discovered them behind her hair.”

255. “BREAVMAN KNOWS a girl named Shell whose ears were pierced so she could wear the long filigree earrings. The punctures festered and now she has a tiny scar in each earlobe. He discovered them behind her hair.”

— Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen Quote: “I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.”

256. “I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.”

— Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen Quote: “Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!”

257. “Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!”

— Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen Quote: “Just as art is the concealment of art, laissezfaire is the concealment of tremendous generosity.”

258. “Just as art is the concealment of art, laissezfaire is the concealment of tremendous generosity.”

— Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen Quote: “Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.”

259. “Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.”

— Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen Quote: “Blessed be the covenant of love between what is hidden and what is revealed.”

260. “Blessed be the covenant of love between what is hidden and what is revealed.”

— Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen Quote: “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.”

261. “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.”

— Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen Quote: “Listen to a name so private it can burn hear it said aloud and learn and learn History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison of all they want to keep Now.”

262. “Listen to a name so private it can burn hear it said aloud and learn and learn History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison of all they want to keep Now.”

— Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen Quote: “My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.”

263. “My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.”

— Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen Quote: “I looked for you in everyone And they called me on that too I lived alone but I was only Coming back to you.”

264. “I looked for you in everyone And they called me on that too I lived alone but I was only Coming back to you.”

— Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen Quote: “I was funding my depression; meeting Christ and reading Marx.”

265. “I was funding my depression; meeting Christ and reading Marx.”

— Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen Quote: “Pigskin crackling on my thumb, nummy nummy I hate pain.”

266. “Pigskin crackling on my thumb, nummy nummy I hate pain.”

— Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen Quote: “I don’t think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.”

267. “I don’t think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.”

— Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen Quote: “Listen to the one who has not been wounded, the one who says, ‘It is not good that man should be alone.’ Recall your longing to the loneliness where it was born, so that when she appears, she will stand before you, not against you. Refine your longing here, in the small silver music of her preparations, under the low-built shelter of repentance.”

268. “Listen to the one who has not been wounded, the one who says, ‘It is not good that man should be alone.’ Recall your longing to the loneliness where it was born, so that when she appears, she will stand before you, not against you. Refine your longing here, in the small silver music of her preparations, under the low-built shelter of repentance.”

— Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen Quote: “Here the destruction is subtle, and there the body is torn. Here the breaking is perceived, and there the dead unaware carry their putrid remains. All trade in filth, carry their filth one to another, all walk the streets as though the ground did not recoil, all stretch their necks to bite the air, as though the breath had not withdrawn. The seed bursts without a blessing, and the harvest is gathered as if it were food.”

269. “Here the destruction is subtle, and there the body is torn. Here the breaking is perceived, and there the dead unaware carry their putrid remains. All trade in filth, carry their filth one to another, all walk the streets as though the ground did not recoil, all stretch their necks to bite the air, as though the breath had not withdrawn. The seed bursts without a blessing, and the harvest is gathered as if it were food.”

— Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen Quote: “All your stupid charities have armed the poor against you.”

270. “All your stupid charities have armed the poor against you.”

— Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen Quote: “We spoke so that we could become tender. It was not the kind of tenderness which follows passion, but the kind which follows failure.”

271. “We spoke so that we could become tender. It was not the kind of tenderness which follows passion, but the kind which follows failure.”

— Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen Quote: “Blessed are you who, among the numberless swept away in terror, permitted a few to suffer carefully.”

272. “Blessed are you who, among the numberless swept away in terror, permitted a few to suffer carefully.”

— Leonard Cohen

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