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" Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. "
Leonard Cohen
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" I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. "
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" I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune. "
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" There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. "
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" I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished. "
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" This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love. "
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" There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They're the great writers. I'm just the other kind. "
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" I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write. "
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" As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one's life or one's work. I was never given to it when I was healthy, and I am less given to it now. "
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" Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity. "
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" There were times that I thought I was good looking. "
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" My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone. "
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" I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot. "
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" I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face. "
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" The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes. It's useful because it addresses the heart in the midst of all these activities, and it will always be useful in this very important way. "
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" There's always a group of songs that I'm working at. Some of them are 10 years old, and some of them are just a few weeks old. I'm always trying to adjust these songs to some position where I can bring them to completion. "
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" As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line. "
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