"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 ..."
- Leonard Cohen
"... i didn't fall in love of courseit's never up to youbut she was walking back and forthand i was passing through"
"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
"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 ther..."
"I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is and al..."
"There is a crack in everything.That's how the light gets in."
"first of all nothing will happen and a little laternothing will happen again"
"Deprivation is the mother of poetry."
"so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos...So ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack in everythingThat’s how the light gets in."
"Who could have foretoldthe heart grows oldfrom touching others"