We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.
Leonard CohenFrom bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.
Leonard CohenHe can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
Leonard CohenI feel that this is a vocabulary that I grew up with. This biblical landscape is very familiar to me, and it's natural that I use those landmarks as references. Once they were universal references and everybody understood and knew them and located them. That's no longer the case today, but it is still my landscape.
Leonard Cohen