I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
Leonard CohenPoetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Leonard CohenI won't comment on what Bob Dylan said, but I will comment on his receiving the Nobel Prize, which to me is like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain.
Leonard CohenIt's coming to America first, The cradle of the best and of the worst. It's here they got the range And the machinery for change And it's here they got the spiritual thirst. It's here the family's broken And it's here the lonely say That the heart has got to open In a fundamental way: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. O mighty Ship of State! To the Shores of Need Past the Reefs of Greed Through the Squalls of Hate Sail on, sail on.
Leonard Cohen