“Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I'm not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.”
―from BEAUTIFUL LOSERS (1966)
Leonard Cohen, who died on this day two years ago, was never without a notebook. He preferred the ninety-nine-cent-store variety, and he often worked on the same pages over many years in different colors of ink.
Singer, poet and novelist Leonard Norman Cohen was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on this day in 1934.
"What I'm Doing Here" BY Leonard Cohen
I do not know if the world has lied
I have lied
I do not know if the world has conspired against love
I have conspired against love
The atmosphere of torture is no comfort
I have tortured
Even without the mushroom cloud
still I would have hated
Listen
I would have done the same things
even if there were no death
I will not be held like a drunkard
under the cold tap of facts
I refuse the universal alibi
I have lied
I do not know if the world has conspired against love
I have conspired against love
The atmosphere of torture is no comfort
I have tortured
Even without the mushroom cloud
still I would have hated
Listen
I would have done the same things
even if there were no death
I will not be held like a drunkard
under the cold tap of facts
I refuse the universal alibi
Like an empty telephone booth passed at night
and remembered
like mirrors in a movie palace lobby consulted
only on the way out
like a nymphomaniac who binds a thousand
into strange brotherhood
I wait
for each one of you to confess
and remembered
like mirrors in a movie palace lobby consulted
only on the way out
like a nymphomaniac who binds a thousand
into strange brotherhood
I wait
for each one of you to confess
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A magnificent selection of song lyrics and poems from across the storied career of one of the most daring and affecting poet-songwriters in the world. In the more than half century since his first book of poems was published, Leonard Cohen has evolved into an international cult figure who transcends genres and generations. This anthology contains a cross section of his five decades of influential work, including such legendary songs as “Suzanne,” “Sisters of Mercy,” “Bird on the Wire,” “Famous Blue Raincoat,” and “I’m Your Man” and searingly memorable poems from his many acclaimed poetry collections, including Flowers for Hitler, Beautiful Losers, and Death of a Lady’s Man. Encompassing the erotic and the melancholy, the mystical and the sardonic, this volume showcases a writer of dazzling intelligence and live-wire emotional immediacy. READ an excerpt from the foreword here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/poems-and-songs-by-le…/
Leonard Cohen 1934~2016 - Wikipedia
Episode 1
A Broken Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen's Secret ChordEpisode 1 of 5
A wonderful biography exploring Leonard Cohen's life, work and passion.
渴望之書
Book of Longing
內容簡介
NASA's Parker Solar Probe will be the first-ever mission to "touch" the Sun.
NASA最新探査機が打ち上げに成功、太陽への「最接近」目指す
The Sun By Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen: Dance Me To The End Of Love Arose From Photo Of Concentration Camp Musicians - Cohencentric: Leonard Cohen Considered
This is a song that arose from a photograph that I saw when I was a child of some people in striped pajamas prison uniforms with violins playing beside a smoke stack and the smoke was made out of gypsies and children, and this song arose out of that photograph: Dance Me To The End Of Love.
Leonard Cohen
From Leonard Cohen’s introduction to Dance Me To The End Of Love at the April 10, 1988 Koln concert. The photo is not, of course, the one described by Cohen but does show prisoner musicians at Camp Mauthausen.
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A new poem by the late Leonard Cohen.
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Leonard Cohen: “Drank a Lot”
“We cry for help, as humans do— / Before the truth, and after.”
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