Leonard Cohen Art Quotations

I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because we're always all over the place. A good song, a good lyric is a movie: it will just focus and calm and confer significance on this completely bewildering reality that all of us live in.

Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.

All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.

Shouldering your loneliness like a gun that you will not learn to aim, you stumble into this movie house then you climb, you climb into the frame.

The art of longing's over, and it's never coming back.