Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.
Leonard CohenPrayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Leonard CohenMaybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.
Leonard Cohen