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The art of longing's over, and it's never coming back.

The art of longing's over, and it's never coming back.

Leonard Cohen
Art, Media, Entertainment
Song: Death Of A Ladies' Man, Album: Death of a Ladies' Man, 1977

I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because we're always all over the place. A good song, a good lyric is a movie: it will just focus and calm and confer significance on this completely bewildering reality that all of us live in.

Leonard Cohen
Song, Art, Reality
"Leonard Cohen at 80". Interview with Mark Ellen, www.thetimes.co.uk. September 19, 2014.

Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.

Leonard Cohen
Art, Poetry, Intention
"A Visit With Leonard Cohen: Poetry, Britney Spears and More With a Master" by Mark Binelli, www.rollingstone.com. November 16, 2016.

All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.

Leonard Cohen
Art, Media, Trying

Shouldering your loneliness like a gun that you will not learn to aim, you stumble into this movie house then you climb, you climb into the frame.

Leonard Cohen
Art, Loneliness, Gun
Song: Love Calls You By Your Name, Album: Songs of Love and Hate, 1971

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