February 2012
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Chuck Berry and Leonard Cohen were honored with... →
“C’mon baby, give me a kiss. Stop writing everything down.”
– Leonard Cohen, “Different Sides” (via joelcrary)
“Lean back and be loved by all that is already loving you.”
– Leonard Cohen (via neonmojo)
flower of anarchy: The Centre →
silver—chain:
When I am at the centre of my unrequited love I cannot hold it as an object It has no sharp edges to torture anyone I breathe the fragrance of the longing and the longing has no proprietor “O my love” embraces the great wide sky as the night picks through the constellations lifting necklace after…
FLUCTUAT NEC MERGITUR: LEONARD COHEN - THE BOOK OF... →
fatoprofugus:
I can’t make the hills The system is shot I’m living on pills For which I thank G-d I followed the course From chaos to art Desire the horse Depression the cart I sailed like a swan I sank like a rock But time is long gone Past my laughing stock My page was too white My ink was too thin The…
gloria story and the vomit express: Chuck Berry... →
parsnips:
Chuck Berry and Leonard Cohen were honoured at Boston’s John F. Kennedy Library this afternoon, receiving the first annual PEN New England Awards for Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence. Bob Dylan could not attend, but sent his regards yesterday:
“To Chuck, the Shakespeare of rock and roll,…
“I don’t care who’s being killed, he thought. I don’t care what crusades are...”
– THE FAVOURITE GAME by leonard cohen (via ordinaryeternalmachinery)
from-the-love-to-the-lightning:
LEONARD COHEN FOR DUBLIN?
“Having played two landmark concerts there in 2008, Hot Press has learned that an application has been made for a licence to stage a Leonard Cohen gig again in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham.
If green-lighted, which seems a formality, the Canadian legend will play Dublin in either August or September. With his Old Ideas album lodged in the...
2 words : Leonard Cohen
“you would look at me
and it never occurred to me
that you might be choosing...”
– Looking Away, Leonard Cohen (via epilepsyblues)
Neil Gaiman: Where I wish I was going to be this... →
neil-gaiman:
PEN New England & The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library cordially invite you…
The 2012 Awards for
Lyrics of Literary Excellence
presented to
Leonard Cohen ~
lalablues:
Love me this first day of June.
I’d rather sleep with ashes than priestly wisdom.
Of all the lonely places in the world this is best where debris is human.
I kiss the precious ashes that fall from fiery flesh.
On these familiar shapes I lay my kisses down.
“My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me…”
– Leonard Cohen, Flowers for Hitler (via lalablues)
My Life in Robes
apoemaday:
by Leonard Cohen
After a while You can’t tell If it’s missing A woman Or needing A cigarette And later on If it’s night Or day Then suddenly You know The time You get dressed You go home You light up You get married
To a Young Nun, by Leonard Cohen
usedbookstorepoetry:
This undemanding love that our staggered births have purchased for us - You in your generation, I in mine. I am not the one you are looking for. You are not the one I’ve stopped looking for. How sweetly time disposes of us as we go arm in arm over the Bridge of Details: Your turn to chop. My turn to cook. Your turn to die for love. My turn to resurrect.
Flowers for Hitler →
angel wear your 'pray hard' shirt: "The Goal" →
sobersally:
I can’t leave my house
or answer the phone
I’m going down again
but I’m not alone.
Settling at last
accounts of the soul:
this for the trash,
that paid in full.
As for the fall, it
began long ago:
can’t stop the rain,
can’t stop the snow.
I sit in my chair
I look at the street.
The…
Conversation between Leonard Cohen and Arthur... →
naipan:
I’m the little Jew who wrote the Bible
Leonard Cohen goes back to his roots in a conversation with Arthur Kurzweil. This is a must-to-read piece, with many rare photos, now posted at http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/arthurkurzweil.pdf This conversation, between Leonard Cohen and Arthur Kurzweil, took place on the morning of Tuesday, November 23, 1993, in a conference room of the New...
TIME - Leonard Cohen's New, Beautiful Old Ideas →
Various Positions: Leonard Cohen in his Own Words →
Leonard Cohen's New Album Old Ideas Receives... →
Music Review: Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas →
