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
“ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars”
Leonard Cohen kniha Beautiful Losers
Zdroj: Beautiful Losers
“Dream after dream we all lie in each other's arms”
Leonard Cohen kniha Beautiful Losers
Zdroj: Beautiful Losers
“.. you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent”
Leonard Cohen kniha Beautiful Losers
Zdroj: Beautiful Losers
Leonard Cohen kniha Beautiful Losers
Zdroj: Beautiful Losers
“Show me slowly what I only
know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love”
Zdroj: Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs
“It doesn't matter how anything happens.”
Varianta: It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway.
Zdroj: The Favorite Game
“My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.”
Leonard Cohen kniha Beautiful Losers
Zdroj: Beautiful Losers
"You Have Loved Enough"
Ten New Songs (2001)
Kontext: I swept the marble chambers,
But you sent me down below.
You kept me from believing
Until you let me know:
That I am not the one who loves —
It's love that chooses me.
When hatred with his package comes,
You forbid delivery.
“Who could have foretold
the heart grows old
from touching others”
Leonard Cohen kniha The Energy of Slaves
Zdroj: The Energy of Slaves
“I know she is coming
I know she will look
And that is the longing
And this is the book.”
Leonard Cohen kniha Book of Longing
Zdroj: Book of Longing
“Believe nothing of me
except that I felt your beauty
more closely than my own.”
Zdroj: The Spice Box of Earth
“Everything has a crack in it; that's how the light gets in.”
"Anthem"
The Future (1992)
Varianta: There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
Zdroj: Selected Poems, 1956-1968
Kontext: Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
"You Want It Darker" · Full text online http://genius.com/Leonard-cohen-you-want-it-darker-lyrics · YouTube audio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0nmHymgM7Y <br class="br">You Want It Darker (2016)
“I fought against the bottle
but I had to do it drunk”
"That Don't Make It Junk", Ten New Songs (2001)
Other Lyrics
"The Captain"
Various Positions (1984)
“Every heart to love will come
But like a refugee.”
"Anthem"
The Future (1992)
On the lyrics to "You Have Loved Enough" in an interview released at the Ten New Songs site (2001)
“Here is your cross,
Your nails and your hill;
And here is your love,
That lists where it will”
"Here It Is"
Ten New Songs (2001)
