Leonard Cohen

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together. ↗

— 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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I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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