Leonard Cohen Quotes: 9

• There is a crack in everything.That's how the light gets in.

  Selected Poems, 1956-1968

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

• And I'll dance with you in Vienna,I'll be wearing a river's disguise.The hyacinth wild on my shouldermy mouth on the dew of your thighs.And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,with the photographs there and the moss.And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty,my cheap violin and my cross.

  Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs

• ... i didn't fall in love of courseit's never up to youbut she was walking back and forthand i was passing through

  Book of Longing

• first of all nothing will happen and a little laternothing will happen again

  Book of Longing

• Deprivation is the mother of poetry.

  The Favorite Game

• I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.

  Beautiful Losers

• It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was areal mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was butone mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed andchanged into itself over and over.

  Beautiful Losers

• Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President's Elegy Or A Nude Hunchback Acquiring A Tan On The Crowded Oily Beach.