Leonard Cohen Quotes


I don't think there's any difference between a crush and profound love. I think the experience is that you dissolve your sentries and your battalions for a moment and you really do see that there is this unfixed free-flowing energy of emotion and thought between people, that it really is there.


Citations

Cohen, Leonard. Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters. Edited by Jeff Burger, Chicago Review Press, 2014.

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Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
  • Born: September 21, 1934
  • Died: November 7, 2016
  • Nationality: Canadian
  • Profession: Singer-songwriter, Poet, Novelist

Leonard Norman Cohen CC GOQ was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death and romantic relationships. Cohen was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. In 2011, Cohen received one of the Prince of Asturias Awards for literature and the ninth Glenn Gould Prize.