The Daily Leonard

Your almost daily shred of wisdom from the great mr. Leonard Cohen. Interviews, song lyrics, excerpts from the novels and poetry and other Leonard Cohen quotes.

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I just takes a tiny moment to receive a scar.
It can be with you for the rest of your life.

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I’d been living on an island in the Mediterranean for some time. [...] I was living for a thousand dollars a year there. I’d come back [to Canada] to make a thousand dollars and my boat or plane fare then go back for as long as that would last.

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My tunes often deal with a moral crisis. I often feel myself a part of such a crisis and try to relate it in song. There’s a line in a poem I wrote that sums this up perfectly:

‘My betrayals are so fresh they still come with explanations.’

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It was dangerous to accept a potato chip at a cocktail party [in 60s New York]. I speak literally. It could be sprinkled with acid. I went to somebody’s room who was having a cocktail party, had a few chips, and 4 days later was still trying to find my room.

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I am old but I have no regrets
not one
even though I am angry and alone
and filled with fear and desire

From: 𝘖𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘩

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The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.

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As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.

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I dreamed about you baby
You were wearing half your dress
I know you have to hate me
But could you hate me less?
I used up all my chances
And you’ll never take me back
But there ain’t no harm in asking
Could you cut me one more slack?

From: 𝘈𝘯𝘺𝘩𝘰𝘸

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I was born in a suit.

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I can make a couple of good sandwiches: tuna salad and chopped egg salad. And Greek bean soup. I was a cook for my old Zen master for many years. So there were two or three dishes that he liked, you know. Teriyaki salmon, a few things.

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With Annie gone,
whose eyes to compare
with the morning sun?

Not that I did compare,
But I do compare
Now that she's gone.

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My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room.

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When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.

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