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5.June.2012

Steve Stanfield is a great haiku master.
He lives in the country with Sarah,
his beautiful wife,
and he writes about small things
which stand for all things.
Kyozan Joshu Roshi,
who has brought hundreds of monks
to a full awakening,
addresses the simultaneous
expansion and contraction
of the cosmos.
I go on and on
about a noble young woman
who unfastened her jeans
in the front seat of my jeep
and let me touch
the source of life
because I was so far from it.
I’ve got to tell you, friends,
I prefer my stuff to theirs.

– Leonard Cohen, “Other Writers” (via thrivingindystopia)
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5.June.2012

“Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked, acted orgies of physical abuse. Imaginations were released to wander on a reconnaissance mission from Cavalry to Dachau.

European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.”

– ― Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game (via ouroboroughs)
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5.June.2012

A Leonard Cohen Minute: What the 2008-2010 Tour Meant to Leonard Cohen

A Leonard Cohen Minute: What the 2008-2010 Tour Meant to Leonard Cohen

“Life on the road for the past three years, with this particular crew and the musicians I worked with, was an experience that went beyond the usual rock n’ roll experience,” he said. “I can’t put my finger on it, but I think everybody involved felt a special kinship, one with the other, and a…
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