Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Quote by Leonard Cohen

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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly...

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly...

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is...

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is...

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is...

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is...

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a...

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a...

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has...

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has...

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting...

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting...

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is...

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is...

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of...

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of...

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is...

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is...

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence...

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence...

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often....

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often....

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the...

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the...