Leonard Cohen Knows Quotations

English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill.

I have to finish it in order to know whether it deserves to survive.

Everybody knows the dice are loaded.

Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.

GIFT You tell me that silence is nearer to peace than poems but if for my gift I brought you silence (for I know silence) you would say This is not silence this is another poem and you would hand it back to me

I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.