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
Well I've seen your flag on the marble arch and love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah
I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.
Love is the only engine of survival
Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you.
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 all he was a thousand kisses deep.
If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love.
Maybe there's a God above, As for me, all I've ever seemed to learn from love Is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you. Yeah but it's not a complaint that you hear tonight, It's not the laughter of someone who claims to have seen the light No it's a cold and it's a very lonely Hallelujah.
... i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through
To the men and women who own men and women those of us meant to be lovers we will not pardon you for wasting our bodies and time
We do what only lovers can: make a gift out of necessity.
Everytime you grab at love you will lose a snowflake of your memory