Frases célebres de Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen Frases y Citas
Leonard Cohen: Frases en inglés
Leonard Cohen libro Book of Longing
Fuente: Book of Longing
“I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.”
Leonard Cohen libro Beautiful Losers
Fuente: Beautiful Losers
“Deprivation is the mother of poetry.”
Fuente: The Favorite Game
"The Old Revolution"
Songs from a Room (1969)
“How bitter were
the Prozac pills
of the last
few hundred mornings”
Leonard Cohen libro Book of Longing
Fuente: Book of Longing
“My page was too white
My ink was too thin
The day wouldn't write
What the night pencilled in”
Leonard Cohen libro Book of Longing
Fuente: Book of Longing
"Sisters of Mercy"
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Contexto: Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control,
It begins with your family, and soon it comes round to your soul.
Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned:
When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned.
“She was made of flesh and eyelashes.”
Fuente: The Favorite Game
“It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.”
Fuente: Songs of Leonard Cohen, Herewith: Music, Words and Photographs
"Sisters of Mercy"
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Contexto: When they lay down beside me I made my confession to them.
They touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on their hem.
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn,
They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.
