Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen, CC GOQis a Canadian singer, songwriter, poet and novelist. His work has explored religion, politics, isolation, sexuality, and personal relationships. Cohen has been inducted into both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame as well as the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is also a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. In 2011, Cohen received a Princess of Asturias Awards for literature...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth21 September 1934
CityWestmount, Canada
CountryCanada
Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique.
Everybody knows the dice are loaded.
Someone gave me wishes and I wished for an embrace.
Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.
I have to finish it in order to know whether it deserves to survive.
Ah, grief makes us precise!
It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it.
What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather than a hunger for profit.
G-d is alive. Magic is afoot. G-d is afoot. Magic is alive.
You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.
I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.
The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...
The duty of lovers is to tarnish the Golden Rule
I don't trust my inner feelings, inner feelings come and go.