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6.July.2012

His speeches returned,
his hours of applause,
weight of foreign medals,
white clothes of too many summers,
girls with whom he shared his power
now old and powerful.
His strategies returned
diagrammed like a geodesic sphere,
He balanced them on his forehead
weaving like a seal.

– From the poem “Death of a Leader” from Flowers for Hitler by Leonard Cohen. (via leonardcohenminute)
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6.July.2012

leonardcohenminute: A drawing by Leonard Cohen from ”Reviewing Leonard Cohen’s Other Art” by Margarita Osipian, Mondo Magazine, June 18, 2007.

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A drawing by Leonard Cohen from ”Reviewing Leonard Cohen’s Other Art” by Margarita Osipian, Mondo Magazine, June 18, 2007.
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6.July.2012

A Leonard Cohen Minute: Leonard Cohen Tutors Us on the Difference between a Song and a Poem

A Leonard Cohen Minute: Leonard Cohen Tutors Us on the Difference between a Song and a Poem

Working on songs, he sits, guitar in hand, coffee and cigarette before him, in front of his typewriter at the kitchen table. How do the work demands between song and written verse differ? “It’s not that different, really. I guess it’s because the pace I work at is so very slow. All forms of…
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