Leonard Cohen nejznámější citáty
„V životě každého člověka působí neviditelná ruka osudu.“
Zdroj: Pozoruhodný život, s. 42
„Vypustit do povětří píseň a mít ji tam celých dvacet let - to je úžasná věc.“
při předávání cen Juno 1991
Zdroj: [Nadel, Ira, 1995, Leonard Cohen - Život v umění, Votobia, 103, 80-85885-57-3]
Leonard Cohen citáty a výroky
„Když se pořádně podíváte na moje protiválečné písně, zjistíte, že jsou zároveň i protimírové.“
Zdroj: Pozoruhodný život, s. 219
1992
Zdroj: [Reynolds, Anthony, Leonard Cohen: Pozoruhodný život, Mladá fronta, Praha, 2012, 256, Klára Kolinská a Miroslav Jindra, 978-80-204-2400-6, 15, dále jen „Pozoruhodný život“]
Leonard Cohen: Citáty anglicky
Leonard Cohen kniha Book of Longing
Zdroj: Book of Longing
“I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.”
Leonard Cohen kniha Beautiful Losers
Zdroj: Beautiful Losers
“Deprivation is the mother of poetry.”
Zdroj: The Favorite Game
"The Old Revolution"
Songs from a Room (1969)
“How bitter were
the Prozac pills
of the last
few hundred mornings”
Leonard Cohen kniha Book of Longing
Zdroj: Book of Longing
“My page was too white
My ink was too thin
The day wouldn't write
What the night pencilled in”
Leonard Cohen kniha Book of Longing
Zdroj: Book of Longing
"Sisters of Mercy"
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Kontext: Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control,
It begins with your family, and soon it comes round to your soul.
Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned:
When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned.
“She was made of flesh and eyelashes.”
Zdroj: The Favorite Game
“It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.”
Zdroj: Songs of Leonard Cohen, Herewith: Music, Words and Photographs
"Sisters of Mercy"
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Kontext: When they lay down beside me I made my confession to them.
They touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on their hem.
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn,
They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.
