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25.June.2012

A Leonard Cohen Minute: Irving Layton's Advice to Leonard Cohen

A Leonard Cohen Minute: Irving Layton's Advice to Leonard Cohen

“I’m reminded of the advice my old friend Irving Layton, who has passed away now but probably is the greatest Canadian poet that we’ve ever produced, and a very close friend. I would confide in him, and after I’d told him what I planned to do and what my deepest aspirations were, he’d always say…
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25.June.2012

Inspiration Versus Perspiration Per Leonard Cohen

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I never depended too much on inspiration. Everyone I know is inspired in the sense that everybody has flashes of insight and moments of deep feeling and seizures of emotion. I don’t think writers have any corner on that kind of experience. But the thing that comes next, which is the application, or the perspiration not the inspiration, that’s what makes a writer.

Leonard Cohen in a radio interview broadcast by ABC (Australia), March 1980.
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25.June.2012

leonardcohenminute: Leonard Cohen reading “Roshi at 89” from Book of Longing and captured from Leonard Cohen: Spring 1996 documentary by Armelle Brusq. Video uploaded by a1000kissesdeep. Check out his many Leonard Cohen videos on his Channel.

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Leonard Cohen reading “Roshi at 89” from Book of Longing and captured from Leonard Cohen: Spring 1996 documentary by Armelle Brusq. Video uploaded by a1000kissesdeep. Check out his many Leonard Cohen videos on his Channel.
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