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22.június.2012

A Leonard Cohen Minute: Leonard Cohen Explains the Broken Heart

A Leonard Cohen Minute: Leonard Cohen Explains the Broken Heart

When the level of suffering in any individual reaches a certain point and he can’t deal with his own discomfort, then he is going to look for some kind of solution. I don’t think any religious quest is begun with a sense of luxury. I don’t think any serious study is undertaken unless the being…
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22.június.2012

A Leonard Cohen Minute: Why Leonard Cohen Continues to Sing

A Leonard Cohen Minute: Why Leonard Cohen Continues to Sing

In 2001 he said: “When Alberta Hunter was singing many years ago, at 82, I came to New York just to listen to her. When she said ‘God bless you’, you really felt that you had been blessed. It’s wonderful to hear a 20-year-old speaking about love. As the Talmud says, there’s good wine in every…
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21.június.2012

She went back to the beach to look for the room key which she thought she might have dropped there. I ran to tell her that the door was open. I stopped at the edge of the sand. The sun was going down. She had lied about the key to escape from the family. She stood in front of the sun. She had become pure attention. My heart was fouled with anxieties of the occasion. I fell to one knee remembering the feathered helmet and shield and how I had betrayed my calling, clinging to the glory of the investiture, my strength spent in boasting and lust while I embraced the alibi of the artist.

– From the commentary on the poem “Angelica” from Death of a Lady’s Man by Leonard Cohen (via leonardcohenminute)
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