January 2012
38 posts
“The reason I write
is to make something
as beautiful as you are”
– Leonard Cohen, The Reason I Write (via sunsetsinexile)
“Whenever I happen to see you
I forget for a while
that I am ugly in my own...”
– the 96th poem from The Energy of Slaves - by Leonard Cohen (via jsykes)
NPR - First Listen: Leonard Cohen, 'Old Ideas' →
The Guardian UK - Leonard Cohen: 'All I've got to... →
iamthecausetoallyourproblems:
“Well, I’ve been generally fearful about everything so this just fits in with the general sense of anxiety that I always experienced in my early life.”
Leonard Cohen Interview →
jackrusher:
When asked if he works out ideas by writing songs:
“I think you work out something. I wouldn’t call them ideas. I think ideas are what you want to get rid of. I don’t really like songs with ideas. They tend to become slogans. They tend to be on the right side of things: ecology or vegetarianism or antiwar. All these are wonderful ideas but I like to work on a song until those...
“I never had a strategy. I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel...”
– Leonard Cohen on Drinking from the well of inspiration (via royalgeneration)
flawless man →
bryanbryanbryan:
And another tour! Big Chill 08 was one of the best moments of my life thus far, and although I have no doubt tickets will be hella expensive, I am there.
flowerbirdwindmoon:
the Ark you’re building in your yard Will you let me on Will you let me off Don’t you think we should all study Etiquette before we study Magic
LEONARD COHEN’S NEW SINGLE “GOING HOME” →
The New Yorker publishes "Going Home" by Leonard... →
“O come with me my little one, we will find that farm
and grow us grass and...”
– Leonard Cohen, “Stories of the Street” (via fuckyeahmrleonardcohen)
“It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.”
– Leonard Cohen (via lethifold)
hello: Better by Leonard Cohenbetter than... →
elainemariebenes:
Better by Leonard Cohen
better than darkness is fake darkness which swindles you into necking with someone’s antique cousin
better than banks are false banks where you change all your rough money into legal tender
better than coffee is blue coffee which you drink in your last bath or sometimes…
I have two bars of soap
clocharde:
By: Leonard Cohen I have two bars of soap, the fragrance of almond, one for you and one for me. draw the bath, we will wash each other. I have no money, I murdered the pharmacist. and here’s the jar of oil, just like in the Bible. lie in my arms, I’ll make your flesh glisten. I have no money, I murdered the perfumer. look through the window, at the shops and people. tell me what you...
Leonard Cohen's twelfth studio album, Old Ideas,... →
“As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. And the instructions were these…Never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity & beauty.”
"Darkness" from the new album Old Ideas →
“I stopped to listen, but he did not come. I begain again with a sense of loss....”
– (via ihateallofmyfriendsexceptyou)
December 2011
9 posts
It's light, light enough to let it go...
absentmare:
Remember when the scenery started fading I held you ‘till you learned to walk on air So don’t look down, the ground is gone There’s no one waving anyway The smokey life is practised everywhere So set your restless heart at ease Take a lesson from these autumn leaves They waste no time waiting for the snow…
Old Ideas - 01.31.12
June 2011
49 posts
