The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul.
Leonard CohenCertainly within any decadent period, you would probably find the purest expressions of conviction, and I do not see that in many of the people I know.
Leonard CohenI'm not a very nostalgic person. I don't really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is not a mechanism that operates very strongly in me. So I neither have regrets nor occasions for self-congratulations.
Leonard CohenWell I see you there with the rose in your teeth One more thin gypsy thief... Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes I thought it was there for good so I never tried... And Jane came by with a lock of your hair She said that you gave it to her That night that you planned to go clear.
Leonard Cohen